A Rust binding to the hdfs3 library from the Apache hawq project: https://github.com/apache/hawq/tree/master/depends/libhdfs3
The advantage of using libhdfs3 is that it does not use JNI and hence there's no need to have the Hadoop jars around or the JVM system libraries in order to use HDFS.
A copy of libhdfs3 is included here. The modifications were to the cmake build files in order to get the code to compile with recent version of dependent libraries.
The Rust binding is inspired by https://github.com/yahoNanJing/fs-hdfs
The main requirements are the dependencies needed by libhdfs3. * cmake http://www.cmake.org/ * boost (tested on 1.53+) http://www.boost.org/ * google protobuf http://code.google.com/p/protobuf/ * libxml2 http://www.xmlsoft.org/ * kerberos http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/ * libuuid http://sourceforge.net/projects/libuuid/ * libgsasl http://www.gnu.org/software/gsasl/
In addition compiling the C++ test code requires the Google Test frameworks (might remove these dependencies from the build here since the C++ tests are not really part of the Rust binding and will simplify the dependencies required).