Install Protocol Buffers on Windows

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If you just want to compile ProtoBuf definitions, you can download precompiled binaries of protoc for all platforms right on the ProtoBuf GitHub releases page.

They had precompiled binaries at least since 2015, but it’s easy to overlook them in between the many downloads.

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