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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.
+#
+
+
+include(CMakeDependentOption)
+
+# Additional components
+option(BUILD_COMPILER "Build Thrift compiler" ON)
+option(BUILD_TESTING "Build with unit tests" ON)
+option(BUILD_EXAMPLES "Build examples" ON)
+option(BUILD_LIBRARIES "Build Thrfit libraries" ON)
+
+# Libraries to build
+
+# Each language library can be enabled or disabled using the WITH_<LANG> flag.
+# By default CMake checks if the required dependencies for a language are present
+# and enables the library if all are found. This means the default is to build as
+# much as possible but leaving out libraries if their dependencies are not met.
+
+# C++
+find_package(Boost 1.53 QUIET)
+CMAKE_DEPENDENT_OPTION(WITH_CPP "Build C++ library" ON
+                       "BUILD_LIBRARIES;Boost_FOUND" OFF)
+# NOTE: Currently the following options are C++ specific,
+# but in future other libraries might reuse them.
+# So they are not dependent on WIHT_CPP but setting them without WITH_CPP currently
+# has no effect.
+find_package(ZLIB QUIET)
+CMAKE_DEPENDENT_OPTION(WITH_ZLIB "Build with ZLIB support" ON
+                       "ZLIB_FOUND" OFF)
+find_package(Libevent QUIET)
+CMAKE_DEPENDENT_OPTION(WITH_LIBEVENT "Build with libevent support" ON
+                       "Libevent_FOUND" OFF)
+find_package(Qt4 QUIET)
+CMAKE_DEPENDENT_OPTION(WITH_QT4 "Build with Qt4 support" ON
+                       "QT4_FOUND" OFF)
+find_package(OpenSSL QUIET)
+CMAKE_DEPENDENT_OPTION(WITH_OPENSSL "Build with OpenSSL support" ON
+                       "OpenSSL_FOUND" OFF)
+option(WITH_BOOSTTHREADS "Build with Boost thread support" OFF)
+option(WITH_STDTHREADS "Build with C++ std::thread support" OFF)
+
+# C GLib
+find_package(GLIB QUIET COMPONENTS gobject)
+CMAKE_DEPENDENT_OPTION(WITH_C_GLIB "Build C (GLib) library" ON
+                       "BUILD_LIBRARIES;GLIB_FOUND" OFF)
+# Java
+find_package(Java QUIET)
+CMAKE_DEPENDENT_OPTION(WITH_JAVA "Build Java library" ON
+                       "BUILD_LIBRARIES;JAVA_FOUND" OFF)
+
+# Common library options
+option(WITH_SHARED_LIB "Build shared libraries" ON)
+option(WITH_STATIC_LIB "Build static libraries" ON)
+
+#NOTE: C++ compiler options are defined in the lib/cpp/CMakeLists.txt
+
+# Visual Studio only options
+if(MSVC)
+option(WITH_MT "Build unsing MT instead of MT (MSVC only)" OFF)
+endif(MSVC)
+
+macro(PRINT_CONFIG_SUMMARY)
+message(STATUS "----------------------------------------------------------")
+message(STATUS "Thrift version:                       ${thrift_VERSION} (${thrift_VERSION_MAJOR}.${thrift_VERSION_MINOR}.${thrift_VERSION_PATCH})")
+message(STATUS "Thrift package version:               ${PACKAGE_VERSION}")
+message(STATUS "Build configuration Summary")
+message(STATUS "  Build Thrift compiler:              ${BUILD_COMPILER}")
+message(STATUS "  Build with unit tests:              ${BUILD_TESTING}")
+message(STATUS "  Build examples:                     ${BUILD_EXAMPLES}")
+message(STATUS "  Build Thrfit libraries:             ${BUILD_LIBRARIES}")
+message(STATUS " Language libraries:")
+message(STATUS "  Build C++ library:                  ${WITH_CPP}")
+message(STATUS "  Build C (GLib) library:             ${WITH_C_GLIB}")
+message(STATUS "  Build Java library:                 ${WITH_JAVA}")
+message(STATUS " Library features:")
+message(STATUS "  Build shared libraries:             ${WITH_SHARED_LIB}")
+message(STATUS "  Build static libraries:             ${WITH_STATIC_LIB}")
+message(STATUS "  Build with ZLIB support:            ${WITH_ZLIB}")
+message(STATUS "  Build with libevent support:        ${WITH_LIBEVENT}")
+message(STATUS "  Build with Qt4 support:             ${WITH_QT4}")
+message(STATUS "  Build with OpenSSL support:         ${WITH_OPENSSL}")
+message(STATUS "  Build with Boost thread support:    ${WITH_BOOSTTHREADS}")
+message(STATUS "  Build with C++ std::thread support: ${WITH_STDTHREADS}")
+message(STATUS "----------------------------------------------------------")
+endmacro(PRINT_CONFIG_SUMMARY)