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Apache Avro Build Instructions
REQUIREMENTS
The following packages must be installed before Avro can be built:
- Java: JDK 1.6, Maven 2 or better, protobuf-compile
- PHP: php5, phpunit, php5-gmp
- Python: 2.5 or greater, python-setuptools for dist target
- C: gcc, cmake, asciidoc, source-highlight
- C++: cmake 2.8.4 or greater, g++, flex, bison, libboost-dev
- Ruby: ruby 1.86 or greater, ruby-dev, gem, rake, echoe, yajl-ruby
- Apache Ant 1.7
- Apache Forrest 0.8 (for documentation)
- md5sum, sha1sum, used by top-level dist target
BUILDING
Once the requirements are installed, build.sh can be used as follows:
'./build.sh test' runs tests for all languages
'./build.sh dist' creates all release distribution files in dist/
'./build.sh clean' removes all generated artifacts