project('protocol buffer test', 'cxx') protoc = find_program('protoc') dep = dependency('protobuf') gen = generator(protoc, \ outputs : ['@BASENAME@.pb.cc', '@BASENAME@.pb.h'], arguments : ['-I=@SOURCE_DIR@', '--cpp_out=@BUILD_DIR@', '@INPUT@']) generated = gen.process('defs.proto') e = executable('prog', 'main.cpp', generated, deps : dep) test('prototest', e)