diff --git a/mcrouter/scripts/order_ubuntu-16.04/14_rsocket-cpp b/mcrouter/scripts/order_ubuntu-16.04/14_rsocket-cpp
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+../recipes/rsocket-cpp.sh
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diff --git a/mcrouter/scripts/recipes/rsocket-cpp.sh b/mcrouter/scripts/recipes/rsocket-cpp.sh
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+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+source common.sh
+
+if [[ ! -d rsocket-cpp ]]; then
+  git clone https://github.com/rsocket/rsocket-cpp.git
+  cd "$PKG_DIR/rsocket-cpp" || die "cd fail"
+  if [[ -f "$REPO_BASE_DIR/mcrouter/RSOCKETCPP_COMMIT" ]]; then
+    RSOCKETCPP_COMMIT="$(head -n 1 "$REPO_BASE_DIR/mcrouter/RSOCKETCPP_COMMIT")"
+    echo "RSOCKETCPP_COMMIT file found: using rsocket-cpp commit $RSOCKETCPP_COMMIT"
+    git checkout "$RSOCKETCPP_COMMIT"
+  else
+    echo "No RSOCKETCPP_COMMIT file, using rsocket-cpp HEAD=$(git rev-parse HEAD)"
+  fi
+fi
+
+cd "$PKG_DIR/rsocket-cpp/build" || die "cd fail"
+rm -f ../CMakeCache.txt
+
+cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="$INSTALL_DIR" -DBUILD_TESTS=OFF
+make $MAKE_ARGS gmock
+make $MAKE_ARGS && make install $MAKE_ARGS