Avro README

Avro is a data serialization system.

Please build and read the documentation for more details.

REQUIREMENTS

The following packages must be installed before Avro can be built:

 - 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)

BUILDING

One the requirements are installed, Ant can be used as follows:

 '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