Building Thrift on Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger

When I tried to install Thrift on Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, I got several errors: one when it couldn't find the Jikes Java compiler, and the two others below:

../compiler/cpp/thrift --gen cpp:dense,reflection_limited

 DebugProtoTest.thrift

 [WARNING:generation:1] Unable to get a generator for

 "cpp:dense,reflection_limited".

 source='gen-cpp/DebugProtoTest_types.cpp'

 object='DebugProtoTest_types.lo' libtool=yes \

 depfile='.deps/DebugProtoTest_types.Plo' tmpdepfile='.deps/

 DebugProtoTest_types.TPlo' \

 depmode=gcc3 /bin/sh ../depcomp \

 /bin/sh ../libtool --mode=compile g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -

I.. -

 I../lib/cpp/src -I/opt/local/include/boost-1_34   -g -O2 -c -o

 DebugProtoTest_types.lo `test -f 'gen-cpp/

DebugProtoTest_types.cpp'

 || echo './'`gen-cpp/DebugProtoTest_types.cpp

 g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I../lib/cpp/src -I/opt/local/

 include/boost-1_34 -g -O2 -c ./gen-cpp/DebugProtoTest_types.cpp

-MT

 DebugProtoTest_types.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/

DebugProtoTest_types.TPlo  -

 fno-common -DPIC -o .libs/DebugProtoTest_types.o

 i686-apple-darwin8-g++-4.0.1: ./gen-cpp/

DebugProtoTest_types.cpp: No

 such file or directory

 i686-apple-darwin8-g++-4.0.1: no input files

 make[2]: *** [DebugProtoTest_types.lo] Error 1

 make[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1

 make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1

./configure: line 21183: syntax error near unexpected token `MONO,'

./configure: line 21183: `  PKG_CHECK_MODULES(MONO, mono >= 1.2.6, have_mono=yes, have_mono=no)'

Solution

If you don't have "MacPorts":http://www.macports.org/, install it. Then install the following ports:

sudo port install libtool autoconf automake pkgconfig ruby python26 python_select

Make sure that your $PATH starts with /opt/local/bin, and run python_select python26.

Then, to fix the PKG_CHECK_MODULES MONO error, run the following in the thrift directory (from the "Thrift FAQ":http://wiki.apache.org/thrift/FAQ):

cp /opt/local/share/aclocal/pkg.m4 aclocal/

Now you should be able to install Thrift: ./bootstrap.sh && ./configure && make && sudo make install