Advice for a possibly unique Thrift build environment?

[Chris Seto]

Hi all,

I am a beginner to the Thrift framework, and I'm looking into using 
Thrift on a project which is half embedded (actually C++ on embedded 
Linux) and half C#. Obviously the C# side is standard affair, so I'm not 
worried about it at all.

On the embedded side, I am running a little embedded Linux computer 
running Angstrom Linux. While I can build either natively or on a 
desktop Linux target, I actually have been cross compiling my 
application on my Windows machine With the GCC-Linaro toolchain.

Obviously, I can run the thrift compiler on my Windows machine, so 
generating the subs isn't a big deal.

I'm more wondering how to include the Thrift libraries in the project. I 
do have an Ubuntu Linux machine which has Thrift "installed", but what 
exactly is the Thrift installation doing, and what is the best way to 
include Thrift into my existing C++ project? Is there a clean way that I 
could compile Thrift libs on my Ubuntu machine, then link against them 
on my Windows build environment? Similarly, would it be possible for me 
to simply include the libs as source files in my existing C++ project?

Thanks
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