diff -NaurdwB ./compile.sh ./compile.sh
--- ./compile.sh	2022-08-03 17:47:57.000000000 -0400
+++ ./compile.sh	2022-08-03 20:01:59.000000000 -0400
@@ -7,33 +7,10 @@
 
 # call protoc direclty, if version is not the desired one, download the desired vesrion.
 
-
-if [ -f "protoc/bin/protoc" ]; then
-  PROTOC_BIN="protoc/bin/protoc"
-else
   PROTOC_BIN=`which protoc`
-fi
 
 echo "using" $PROTOC_BIN
 
-CURRENT_PROTOC_VER=`${PROTOC_BIN} --version`
-if [ -z ${PROTOC_BIN} ] || [[ "$CURRENT_PROTOC_VER" != "libprotoc "$DESIRED_PROTO_VERSION ]]; then
-  # Download and use the latest version of protoc.
-  if [ "$(uname)" == "Darwin" ]; then
-    PROTOC_ZIP="protoc-"$DESIRED_PROTO_VERSION"-osx-x86_64.zip"
-  else
-    PROTOC_ZIP="protoc-"$DESIRED_PROTO_VERSION"-linux-x86_64.zip"
-  fi
-  WGET_BIN=`which wget`
-  if [[ ! -z ${WGET_BIN} ]]; then
-    ${WGET_BIN} https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/releases/download/v"$DESIRED_PROTO_VERSION"/${PROTOC_ZIP}
-    rm -rf protoc
-    python -c "import zipfile; zipfile.ZipFile('"${PROTOC_ZIP}"','r').extractall('protoc')"
-    PROTOC_BIN=protoc/bin/protoc
-    chmod +x ${PROTOC_BIN}
-  fi
-fi
-
 # Regenerate
 if [[ ! -z ${PROTOC_BIN} ]]; then
   # Delete all existing Python protobuf (*_pb2.py) output