| Mark Slee | 54b7ab9 | 2007-03-06 00:06:27 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | Thrift C++ Software Library |
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| Bryan Duxbury | def30a6 | 2009-04-08 00:19:37 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 3 | License |
| 4 | ======= |
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| Mark Slee | 54b7ab9 | 2007-03-06 00:06:27 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 22 | |
| 23 | Using Thrift with C++ |
| 24 | ===================== |
| 25 | |
| 26 | The Thrift C++ libraries are built using the GNU tools. Follow the instructions |
| 27 | in the top-level README, or run bootstrap.sh in this folder to generate the |
| 28 | Makefiles. |
| 29 | |
| 30 | In case you do not want to open another README file, do this: |
| 31 | ./bootstrap.sh |
| 32 | ./configure (--with-boost=/usr/local) |
| 33 | make |
| 34 | sudo make install |
| 35 | |
| 36 | Thrift is divided into two libraries. |
| 37 | |
| 38 | libthrift |
| 39 | The core Thrift library contains all the core Thrift code. It requires |
| 40 | boost shared pointers, pthreads, and librt. |
| 41 | |
| 42 | libthriftnb |
| 43 | This library contains the Thrift nonblocking server, which uses libevent. |
| 44 | To link this library you will also need to link libevent. |
| 45 | |
| 46 | Linking Against Thrift |
| 47 | ====================== |
| 48 | |
| 49 | After you build and install Thrift the libraries are installed to |
| 50 | /usr/local/lib by default. Make sure this is in your LDPATH. |
| 51 | |
| 52 | On Linux, the best way to do this is to ensure that /usr/local/lib is in |
| 53 | your /etc/ld.so.conf and then run /sbin/ldconfig. |
| 54 | |
| 55 | Depending upon whether you are linking dynamically or statically and how |
| 56 | your build environment it set up, you may need to include additional |
| 57 | libraries when linking against thrift, such as librt and/or libpthread. If |
| 58 | you are using libthriftnb you will also need libevent. |
| 59 | |
| 60 | Dependencies |
| 61 | ============ |
| 62 | |
| 63 | boost shared pointers |
| 64 | http://www.boost.org/libs/smart_ptr/smart_ptr.htm |
| 65 | |
| 66 | libevent (for libthriftnb only) |
| 67 | http://monkey.org/~provos/libevent/ |