Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: FOUO I can't answer all of your questions and can only contribute a small bit, but for #2, be aware that I've successfully compiled Thrift against Boost 1.48 and later. Not sure about the earlier variants though.
Good luck! -----Original Message----- From: Billy Charlton [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2012 10:58 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Trying to building Thrift 0.9.0 with MinGW64 on Windows I've been struggling to build Thrift 0.9.0 on Windows 7 (64bit) using the MinGW64 toolchain. I understand this is not a fully supported platform, but since Windows is supported, 64bit is supported, and GNU compilers are supported, I figured I would try to combine all three :-) I have read every web page that Google reveals on building Thrift for Windows, but this combination of platforms and compilers seems problematic. So, here are a few questions, if anyone out there has some experience with this: 1) Does it matter which version of GCC I use to build? I've tried 4.7 but it doesn't work well with older versions of Boost; I'm currently using 4.5. 2) Is there a preferred version of the Boost threading library that works best with Thrift? I've tried Boost 1.51, 1.40, 1.43... but no matter which version I use, even if I can compile Boost itself I then get many errors building Thrift. 3) Specific error messages during build point to problems with type "pthread_t" not being found. If I configure Thrift with "--enable-boostthreads" I thought it would not use that because of macros which define USE_BOOST_THREAD. But apparently that's not getting defined? I can provide more details on the error logs if someone wants to hear about it. If I can get this to compile successfully I will definitely document my findings recipe-style so that others can benefit from this work. Cheers, Billy Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: FOUO
