Build Thrift Binary on CentOS 7

README.md

To build the thrift binary, we'll use the CentOS 7 docker image provided by the Thrift project.

Below are the basic steps:

1. get the dockerfile
2. get thrift tarball
3. extract tarball
4. build thrift

make get_dockerfile build_image
make get_thrift extract_thrift

# this step puts you inside the container, ready to build thrift
make build_thrift

# once in the container, run configure, make and make install, for example:
./configure --without-ruby --without-d --without-dart --without-haskell --without-erlang --without-nodejs --without-ocaml --without-php --without-lua --without-perl --without-rust
make
make install
# copy the thrift binary to a directory that'll exist outside the container once you exit
cp /usr/local/bin/thrift .

Makefile

THRIFT_VERSION=0.11.0

get_dockerfile:
	@wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/apache/thrift/master/build/docker/centos-7.3/Dockerfile

build_image:
	@docker build -t thrift .

get_thrift:
	@wget http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/apache/thrift/$(THRIFT_VERSION)/thrift-$(THRIFT_VERSION).tar.gz

extract_thrift:
	@tar xzf thrift-$(THRIFT_VERSION).tar.gz

build_thrift:
	@docker run -v $(PWD)/thrift-$(THRIFT_VERSION):/thrift/src/ -it thrift bash