rules_proto is deprecated, and it looks like that pre-build is not used if new official protobuf is used directly

[develar]

rules_proto is deprecated.
When protobuf is used, looks like that pre-built doesn't work and still I see C compilation.

[michaelschuett-tomtom]

Can you share an example reproducing case possibly in the example repo? This sounds like it is related to #41 in which case I opened an example PR here #48 you can try out.

[alexeagle]

The examples folder in this repo is the proof of what works and what doesn't. With Bazel 8, go_proto_library is the only language rule I know of that correctly uses Bazel's toolchains feature to resolve the protoc binary. The ones in the protobuf repo are hard-coded to the cc_binary target and trigger compilation.