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+#
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+# or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file
+# distributed with this work for additional information
+# regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file
+# to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+# "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+# with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+# software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+# "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+# KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the
+# specific language governing permissions and limitations
+# under the License.
+#
+
+BOOST_DIR = /usr/local/boost/include/boost-1_33_1/
+THRIFT_DIR = /usr/local/include/thrift
+LIB_DIR = /usr/local/lib
+
+GEN_SRC = ../gen-cpp/SharedService.cpp ../gen-cpp/shared_types.cpp ../gen-cpp/tutorial_types.cpp ../gen-cpp/Calculator.cpp
+
+default: server client
+
+server: CppServer.cpp
+	g++ -o CppServer -I${THRIFT_DIR} -I${BOOST_DIR}  -I../gen-cpp -L${LIB_DIR} -lthrift CppServer.cpp ${GEN_SRC}
+
+client: CppClient.cpp
+	g++ -o CppClient -I${THRIFT_DIR} -I${BOOST_DIR}  -I../gen-cpp -L${LIB_DIR} -lthrift CppClient.cpp ${GEN_SRC}
+
+clean:
+	$(RM) -r CppClient CppServer