I'm hitting an error when trying to build thrift (0.8 or 0.9-dev) under cygwin (XP). I didn't have this problem when building on Linux.
libtool: compile: gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../.. -g -Wall -W -Werror -Isrc -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -MT libthrift_c_glib_la-thrift_server_socket.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/libthrift_c_glib_la-thrift_server_socket.Tpo -c src/transport/thrift_server_socket.c -DDLL_EXPORT -DPIC -o .libs/libthrift_c_glib_la-thrift_server_socket.o cc1: warnings being treated as errors src/transport/thrift_server_socket.c: In function 'thrift_server_socket_accept': src/transport/thrift_server_socket.c:111: error: pointer targets in passing argument 3 of 'accept' differ in signedness make[4]: *** [libthrift_c_glib_la-thrift_server_socket.lo] Error 1 make[4]: Leaving directory `~/OpenSource/thrift-0.9.0-dev/lib/c_glib' Configuration was: export CXXFLAGS="-D PTHREAD_MUTEX_RECURSIVE_NP=PTHREAD_MUTEX_RECURSIVE" PY_PREFIX=$HOME JAVA_PREFIX=$HOME ./configure --with-c-glib --prefix=$HOME -Dan