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<h2>{{ page.title }} Tutorial</h2>

<h3>Introduction</h3>

<p>
All Apache Thrift tutorials require that you have:

<ol>
  <li>The Apache Thrift Compiler and Libraries, see <a href="/download">Download</a> and <a href="/docs/BuildingFromSource">Building from Source</a> for more details.</li>
  <li>Generated the <a href="https://github.com/apache/thrift/blob/master/tutorial/tutorial.thrift">tutorial.thrift</a> and <a href="https://github.com/apache/thrift/blob/master/tutorial/shared.thrift">shared.thrift</a> files:<br>
    <pre><code>thrift -r --gen {{ page.librarylang }} tutorial.thrift</code></pre>
  </li>
  <li>Followed all prerequisites listed below.</li>
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