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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.
+#
+
+
+cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.8)
+
+project(thrift)
+
+set(CMAKE_MODULE_PATH "${CMAKE_MODULE_PATH}" "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/cmake")
+
+# TODO: add `git rev-parse --short HEAD`
+# Read the version information from the Autoconf file
+file (STRINGS "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/configure.ac" CONFIGURE_AC REGEX "AC_INIT\\(.*\\)" )
+
+# The following variable is used in the version.h.in file
+string(REGEX REPLACE "AC_INIT\\(\\[.*\\], \\[([0-9]+\\.[0-9]+\\.[0-9]+(-dev)?)\\]\\)" "\\1" PACKAGE_VERSION ${CONFIGURE_AC})
+message(STATUS "Parsed Thrift package version: ${PACKAGE_VERSION}")
+
+# These are internal to CMake
+string(REGEX REPLACE "([0-9]+\\.[0-9]+\\.[0-9]+)(-dev)?" "\\1" thrift_VERSION ${PACKAGE_VERSION})
+string(REGEX REPLACE "([0-9]+)\\.[0-9]+\\.[0-9]+" "\\1" thrift_VERSION_MAJOR ${thrift_VERSION})
+string(REGEX REPLACE "[0-9]+\\.([0-9])+\\.[0-9]+" "\\1" thrift_VERSION_MINOR ${thrift_VERSION})
+string(REGEX REPLACE "[0-9]+\\.[0-9]+\\.([0-9]+)" "\\1" thrift_VERSION_PATCH ${thrift_VERSION})
+message(STATUS "Parsed Thrift version: ${thrift_VERSION} (${thrift_VERSION_MAJOR}.${thrift_VERSION_MINOR}.${thrift_VERSION_PATCH})")
+
+# Some default settings
+include(DefineCMakeDefaults)
+
+# Build time options are defined here
+include(DefineOptions)
+include(DefineInstallationPaths)
+
+# Based on the options set some platform specifics
+include(DefinePlatformSpecifc)
+
+# Generate the config.h file
+include(ConfigureChecks)
+
+# Package it
+include(CPackConfig)
+
+
+find_package(Threads)
+
+include(CTest)
+if(BUILD_TESTING)
+  message(STATUS "Building with unittests")
+else ()
+  message(STATUS "Building without tests")
+endif ()
+if(BUILD_COMPILER)
+    add_subdirectory(${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/compiler/cpp)
+endif()
+
+if(WITH_CPP)
+    add_subdirectory(${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/lib/cpp)
+endif()
+
+if(WITH_C_GLIB)
+    add_subdirectory(${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/lib/c_glib)
+endif()
+
+if(WITH_JAVA)
+    add_subdirectory(${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/lib/java)
+endif()
+
+PRINT_CONFIG_SUMMARY()