Thrift Code Compiler License ======= Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License. Thrift Code Compiler ==================== This compiler takes thrift files as input and generates output code across various programming languages. To build and install it, do this: ./bootstrap.sh ./configure make sudo make install It requires some form of LEX and YACC to be installed, which should be picked up by autoconf. Not much else to report here. You'll have to look at the code to get your questions answered. Or just run the executable after you build and take a look at the usage message.