Installing Thrift on Mac OSX 10.5

There are few dependencies in the way to install Thrift. I'll list the ones I found and the way to install it. You may have some of the dependencies and so skip a step or two.

• X11. Doesn't sound like something Thrift would care about. It is actually a dependency of Python and you need that for Boost and you need that for thrift :-) Download it, double click to install and reboot.
• Fink.
  
• Boost. From the command line, type 'fink install boost1.33'
• Download and unzip Thrift.
• Run the following from the command line:

$ cd {Thrift dir}
$ cp /usr/X11/share/aclocal/pkg.m4 aclocal/
$ ./bootstrap.sh
$ ./configure --with-boost=/sw/
$ make
$ sudo make install

That's it!
Now run the thrift toturial script and make sure you read the file:

$ cd tutorial/
$ ./tutorial.thrift