OS X thrift setup

OS X Setup

The following command install all the required tools and libraries to build and install the Apache Thrift compiler on a OS X based system.

Install Boost

Download the boost library from boost.org untar compile with

./bootstrap.sh
sudo ./b2 threading=multi address-model=64 variant=release stage install

Install libevent

Download libevent, untar and compile with

./configure --prefix=/usr/local
make
sudo make install

Building Apache Thrift

Download the latest version of Apache Thrift, untar and compile with

./configure --prefix=/usr/local/ --with-boost=/usr/local --with-libevent=/usr/local

Additional reading

For more information on the requirements see: Apache Thrift Requirements

For more information on building and installing Thrift see: Building from source

This snippet was generated by Apache Thrift's source tree docs: doc/install/os_x.md

wget -c ftp://ftp.openssl.org/source/openssl-1.0.1c.tar.gz
tar -zxf openssl-1.0.1c.tar.gz
cd openssl-1.0.1c/
./config --prefix=/usr/local --openssldir=/usr/local/ssl
make && make install
./config shared --prefix=/usr/local --openssldir=/usr/local/ssl
make clean
make && make install