# `mix protox.generate`
[🔗](https://github.com/ahamez/protox/blob/main/lib/mix/tasks/protox/generate.ex#L1)

Generate Elixir code from `.proto` files.

Example:
`mix protox.generate --output-path=lib/message.ex --include-path=. message.proto`

The generated file will be usable in any project as long as protox is declared
in the dependencies (the generated code still needs functions from the protox runtime).

You can use the `--namespace` option to prepend a namespace to all generated modules.

If you have large protobuf files, you can use the `--multiple-files` option to generate
one file per module (it will leverage parallel compilation).

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*Consult [api-reference.md](api-reference.md) for complete listing*