https://github.com/google/protobuf/blob/master/src/google/protobuf/compiler/cpp/cpp_generator.ccgit
bool CppGenerator::Generate(const FileDescriptor* file, const string& parameter, GeneratorContext* generator_context, string* error) const { std::vector<std::pair<string, string> > options; ParseGeneratorParameter(parameter, &options); // ----------------------------------------------------------------- // parse generator options // TODO(kenton): If we ever have more options, we may want to create a // class that encapsulates them which we can pass down to all the // generator classes. Currently we pass dllexport_decl down to all of // them via the constructors, but we don't want to have to add another // constructor parameter for every option. // If the dllexport_decl option is passed to the compiler, we need to write // it in front of every symbol that should be exported if this .proto is // compiled into a Windows DLL. E.g., if the user invokes the protocol // compiler as: // protoc --cpp_out=dllexport_decl=FOO_EXPORT:outdir foo.proto // then we'll define classes like this: // class FOO_EXPORT Foo { // ... // } // FOO_EXPORT is a macro which should expand to __declspec(dllexport) or // __declspec(dllimport) depending on what is being compiled. //