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Bond
Bond is an open source, cross-platform framework for working with schematized data. It supports cross-language serialization/deserialization and powerful generic mechanisms for efficiently manipulating data. Bond is broadly used at Microsoft in high scale services.
Bond is published on GitHub at https://github.com/Microsoft/bond/.
For details, see the User's Manuals for C++, C# and Python.
For a discussion how Bond compares to similar frameworks see Why Bond.
Dependencies
The Bond repository uses Git submodules and should be cloned with the
--recursive
flag:
git clone --recursive https://github.com/Microsoft/bond.git
In order to build Bond you will need CMake (2.8.12+), Haskell (ghc 7.4+ and cabal-install 1.18+) and Boost (1.54+). The core Bond C++ library can be used with C++03 compilers, although Python support, unit tests and various examples require some C++11 features.
Following are specific instructions for building on various platforms.
Linux
Bond can be built with Clang (3.4+) or GNU C++ (4.7+). We recommend the latest version of Clang as it's much faster with template-heavy code like Bond.
Run the following commands to install the minimal set of packages needed to build the core Bond library on Ubuntu 14.04:
sudo apt-get install \
clang \
cmake \
zlib1g-dev \
ghc \
cabal-install \
libboost-dev \
libboost-thread-dev
cabal update
cabal install cabal-install
In the root bond
directory run:
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make
sudo make install
The build
directory is just an example. Any directory can be used for build
destination.
In order to build all the C++ and Python tests and examples, a few more packages are needed:
sudo apt-get install \
python2.7-dev \
libboost-date-time-dev \
libboost-test-dev \
libboost-python-dev
cabal install happy
Running the following command in the build directory will build and execute all the tests and examples:
make --jobs 8 check
(unit tests are large so you may want to run 4-8 build jobs in parallel, assuming you have enough memory)
OS X
Install XCode and then run the following command to install required packages using Homebrew (http://brew.sh/):
brew install \
cmake \
ghc \
cabal-install \
boost \
boost-python
(boost-python is optional and only needed for Python support)
Update cabal package database and install happy
(only needed for tests):
cabal update
cabal install happy
Bond can be built on OS X using either standard *nix makefiles or XCode. In
order to generate and build makefiles, in the root bond
directory run:
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make
sudo make install
Alternatively you can generate XCode project by passing -G Xcode
option to
cmake:
cmake -G Xcode ..
You can build and run unit tests by building the check
target in XCode or by
running make in the build directory:
make --jobs 8 check
Note that if you are using Homebrew's Python, you'll need to build boost-python from source:
brew install --build-from-source boost-python
and tell cmake the location of Homebrew's libpython by setting PYTHON_LIBRARY
variable, e.g.:
cmake .. -DPYTHON_LIBRARY=/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.9/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/libpython2.7.dylib
Windows
Install the following tools:
- Visual Studio 2013
- CMake (http://www.cmake.org/download/)
- Haskell Platform (http://haskell.org/platform/)
You can install them with Chocolatey:
cinst haskellplatform cmake visualstudiocommunity2013
If you are building on a network behind a proxy, set the environment variable
HTTP_PROXY
, e.g.:
set HTTP_PROXY=http://proxy:80
Update cabal package database:
cabal update
Now you are ready to build the C# version of Bond. Open the solution file
cs\cs.sln
in Visual Studio 2013 and build as usual. The C# unit tests can
also be run from within the solution.
The C++ and Python versions of Bond additionally require:
- Boost 1.54+ (http://www.boost.org/users/download/)
- Python 2.7 (https://www.python.org/downloads/)
You may need to set the environment variables BOOST_ROOT
and BOOST_LIBRARYDIR
to specify where Boost and its pre-built libraries for your environment can be
found, e.g.:
set BOOST_ROOT=D:\boost_1_57_0
set BOOST_LIBRARYDIR=D:\boost_1_57_0\lib64-msvc-12.0
The core Bond library and most examples only require Boost headers. The pre-built libraries are only needed for unit tests and Python support. If Boost or Python libraries are not found on the system then some tests and examples will not be built.
In order to configure solution for Visual Studio 2013 run the following
commands from the root bond
directory:
mkdir build
cd build
cmake -G "Visual Studio 12 2013 Win64" ..
Instead of cmake
you can also use cmake-gui
and specify configuration
settings in the UI. This configuration step has to be performed only once. From
now on you can use the generated solution build\bond.sln
from Visual Studio
or build from command line using cmake
:
set PreferredToolArchitecture=x64
cmake --build . --target
cmake --build . --target INSTALL
In order to build and execute the unit tests and examples run:
cmake --build . --target check -- /maxcpucount:8
Setting PreferredToolArchitecture=x64
selects the 64-bit toolchain which
dramatically improves build speed (Bond unit tests are too big to build with
32-bit tools). This variable works for Visual Studio 2013 or 2015. For VS 2012 set the
following variable instead:
set _IsNativeEnvironment=true