Github user jeking3 commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/thrift/pull/1171#discussion_r98771831
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+# Building thrift on Windows (MinGW64/MSYS2)
+
+Thrift uses cmake to make it easier to build the project on multiple
platforms, however to build a fully functional and production ready thrift on
Windows requires a number of third party libraries to be obtained. Once third
party libraries are ready, the right combination of options must be passed to
cmake in order to generate the correct environment.
+
+> Note: libevent and libevent-devel do not work with this toolchain as
they do not properly detect mingw64 and expect some headers to exist that do
not, so the non-blocking server is not currently built into this solution.
+
+## MSYS2
+
+Download and fully upgrade msys2 following the instructions at:
+
+ https://msys2.github.io/
+
+Install the necessary toolchain items for C++:
+
+ $ pacman -S bison flex openssl openssl-devel \
+ mingw-w64-x86_64-boost mingw-w64-x86_64-cmake \
+ mingw-w64-x86_64-toolchain zlib zlib-devel
+
+Update your msys2 bash path to include /mingw64/bin by adding a line to
your ~/.bash_profiles using this command:
+
+ echo "export PATH=/mingw64/bin:\$PATH" >> ~/.bash_profile
+
+After that, close your shell and open a new one.
+
+Use cmake to create a MinGW makefile, out of tree (assumes you are in the
top level of the thrift source tree):
+
+ mkdir ../thrift-build
+ cd ../thrift-build
+ cmake -G"MinGW Makefiles"
-DCMAKE_MAKE_PROGRAM=/mingw64/bin/mingw32-make \
+ -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc.exe \
+ -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=x86_64-w64-mingw32-g++.exe \
+ -DWITH_BOOSTTHREADS=ON -DWITH_LIBEVENT=OFF \
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BOOST is used in the particular case I have because we have a hardcoded
windows/config.h we are using instead of relying on the one generated by cmake.
There's already a backlog item for this, so given there's a bugfix here + some
instructions I am going to merge this.
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