| Avro README |
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| Avro is a data serialization system. |
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| Please build and read the documentation for more details. |
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| REQUIREMENTS |
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| The following packages must be installed before Avro can be built: |
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| - Java: JDK 1.6 |
| - Python: 2.5 or greater |
| - C: gcc, automake, libtool, libapr1-dev, libaprutil1-dev, doxygen |
| - C++: g++, flex, bison, libboost-dev |
| - Apache Ant 1.7 |
| - Apache Forrest 0.8 (for documentation, requires Java 1.5) |
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| BUILDING |
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| One the requirements are installed, Ant can be used as follows: |
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| 'ant javadoc' builds Java API documentation to build/doc/api |
| 'ant doc' builds Avro specification document in build/doc/spec.html |
| 'ant test' runs tests in src/test |
| 'ant jar' creates a jar in build/avro-X.X.jar |
| 'ant tar' makes a "release" with docs, jar, src, etc. in build/avro-X.X.tar.gz |
| 'ant clean' removes all generated artifacts |
