This will also compile the tutorial client and server for several languages. See the Building from source guide for any help with this step.

To recursivly generate source code from a Thrift file and all other Thrift files included by it, run

thrift -r --gen <language> <Thrift filename>

The sample tutorial.thrift file defines a basic calculator service. This sample calculator service .thrift file includes another file called shared.thrift. Both files will be used to demonstrate how to build a Thrift client and server pair.