On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Douglas Creager <doug...@creagertino.net>wrote:
> > Also my understanding is that I must 'install' or deploy Avro before I > can try out the C bindings suggested by Douglas. I am stating this since I > am not exactly clear by what this meant: - "especially since the C > bindings don't have any library dependencies to install". I am assuming it > means, I don't need anything beyond a basic install of Avro. > > Sorry about the misunderstanding. And you're right — you'd need to > download, compile, and install the Avro C bindings, but they don't require > any *additional* libraries to be installed. It's a pretty standard set of > CMake build scripts, and there's an INSTALL file in the tarball containing > more detailed instructions. > Thank you Doug, for pointing this out specifically. From things I have done in the past, API's seemed to be a part of packages, so I didn't quite even look outside of the avro package. But after you mentioned it, I went back and saw that the main download page itself had a separate folder for the C bindings. After I installed cmake, the install was straightforward. -Selvi > > (I should also point out that in the next release, 1.6.2, the C bindings > will support the zlib and lzma compression codecs. You'll need to have the > zlib and xz/lzma libraries installed for those to work. If you don't have > those libraries, you can still install the Avro C bindings; you just won't > be able to read or write Avro data files that use the corresponding codecs.) > > –doug > >
