| Thrift (Thrift IDL and RPC tool) | 
 | Version 1.0  (22 August 2006) | 
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 | Mark Slee (mcslee@facebook.com) | 
 | Aditya Agarwal (aditya@facebook.com) | 
 | Marc Kwiatkowski (marc@facebook.com) | 
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 | $Header$ | 
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 | Thrift is distributed under the Thrift open source software license. | 
 | Please see the included LICENSE file. | 
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 | Introduction | 
 | ============ | 
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 | Thrift is a lightweight, language-independent software stack with an | 
 | associated code generation mechanism for RPC. | 
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 | Requirements | 
 | ============ | 
 | Thrift requires boost shared pointers from boost-1.33.1 or greater, | 
 | see http://www.boost.org/libs/smart_ptr/smart_ptr.htm | 
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 | Resources | 
 | ========= | 
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 | More information about Thrift can be obtained on the Thrift webpage at: | 
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 |      http://developers.facebook.com/thrift | 
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 | Acknowledgments | 
 | =============== | 
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 | Thrift was inspired by pillar, a lightweight RPC tool written by Adam D'Angelo | 
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 | INSTALLATION | 
 | ============ | 
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 | If you are building from the first time out of the source repository, you will | 
 | need to generate the configure scripts.  From the top directory, do: | 
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 | 	./bootstrap.sh | 
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 | Once the configure scripts are generated, thrift can be configured. | 
 | From the top directory, do: | 
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 | 	./configure | 
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 | You may need to specify the location of the boost files explicitly. | 
 | If you installed boost in  /usr/local, you would run configure as follows: | 
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 | 	./configure --with-boost=/usr/local | 
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 | Note that by default the thrift C++ library is built with no debugging symbols | 
 | included. If you would like debugging symbols during development work, run: | 
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 |         ./configure CFLAGS='-g -O2' | 
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 | Run ./configure --help to see other configuration options | 
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 | Make thrift  | 
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 | 	make | 
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 | From the top directory, become superuser and do: | 
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 | 	make install |