The main focus of this package is the new C++ server, under thrift/lib/cpp2. This repo also contains a branch of the rest of apache thrift's repo with any changes Facebook has made, however the build system only supports cpp2.

Apache thrift is at http://thrift.apache.org/

For your convenience, a build script is provided for ubuntu 12.10 64-bit:

cd fbthrift/thrift ./deps.sh

It will automatically pull down folly and build it, and then configure and build thrift.

• Facebook's folly library: http://www.github.com/facebook/folly

• Ubuntu 12.10 64-bit requires the following packages:

  • autoconf
  • libtool
  • g++
  • libboost-dev-all
  • libevent-dev
  • flex
  • bison
  • libgoogle-glog-dev
  • scons
  • libkrb5-dev
  • libsnappy-dev
  • libsasl2-dev

Some docs on the new cpp2 server are at: https://github.com/facebook/fbthrift/blob/master/thrift/doc/Cpp2.md