title: How do I get a precompiled linux binary for protoc ( protocol buffers )?
body: <p>My build server is linux based. I need protoc to integrate it to my ant based build system. </p>
  
  <p>I use following in build.xml for same:</p>
  
  <pre><code>    &lt;exec executable="tools/protoc.exe" failonerror="true"&gt;
          &lt;arg value="--java_out=../protos/java/generated" /&gt;
          &lt;arg value="--proto_path=../protos/proto" /&gt;
          &lt;arg value="../protos/proto/*.proto" /&gt;
      &lt;/exec&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I found windows binary , but didn't find linux binary for protoc. </p>
  
  <p>Any help to find one or build statically linked protoc binary would be nice.</p>