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Konrad Grochowski commented on THRIFT-2835:
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CPack installer is a good start.
Anyone tried dynamic linking mingw exe (what thrift generates) with MSVC dll
(what users may want to create)? Iface has to be pure {{extern "C"}} (no
classes etc), yet I've never tried this and I'm just wandering what happens
with std lib symbols from both exe and dll...
Nevertheless idea is very appealing, especially if we hide all exe+dll stuff
inside some framework (module wrapping {{extern "C"}} calls, so generator
writers will not have to know about DllHell issues)
> Add possibility to distribute generators separately from thrift core, and
> load them dynamically
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> Key: THRIFT-2835
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-2835
> Project: Thrift
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: Compiler (General)
> Reporter: Anatol Pomozov
> Labels: fbthrift
>
> It is a follow-up for discussion with Facebook's fbthrift
> https://github.com/facebook/fbthrift/issues/48
> fbthrift adds its own generator that creates C++ classes based on their
> libraries. I do not know how upstreamable this generator but I think other
> companies would want to do the same - create their own custom generators.
> Currently there is no way to distribute generators separately from the thrift
> core. Thus the company have to fork whole project and add their own
> generator. It is what Facebook did.
> The idea is that thrift should be able to load language generators
> dynamically. i.e. a company foo creates its own generator and puts it to
> system /usr/lib/thrift/generators/cpp_foo.so When thrift compiler starts - it
> checks /usr/lib/thrift/generators/ and uses dlopen() to load the shared
> libraries. The shared library contains information about the generator (name,
> options, ...) thus it allows thrift core to use this custom third-party
> generator.
> This allows companies to create and distribute generator will less pain and
> no need to fork the project.
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