If I were you, I would just use Visual Studio Express and compile it with that. If you need 64-bit then install the Windows 7.1 SDK and use that toolkit to build. I successfully managed to do this myself.
On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 3:19 AM, Knick, Scott E CTR USARMY RCERT-EUR (US) < [email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > >
