如何在Windows中使用Eclipse && MinGW设置Apache Thrift？

Question

I need to configure Thrift for Eclipse project with MinGW compiler. I googled for it. I couldn't find proper instructions to do that? Can somebody suggest any suitable way or proper link to do that?

Answer 1

There are several partial answers to this.

1. The Windows build is made by means of MinGW cross compiler on a Linux machine.

2. Since (at least) 0.9.2 it is no longer necessary to use MinGW to build the Thrift compiler on a Windows machine. ¹⁾ Aside from the fact, that you don't need to do that at all, because a precompiled EXE is available on the download pages, there is a nice Visual Studio project to build the Windows Thrift compiler EXE. The project has only two dependencies: Bison and Lexx/Yacc, which are both available elsewhere as precompiled Setups as well.

3. In either case MinGW is only used to build the compiler. If you want to build the libraries with MinGW, I'm not sure if that even works. This way of doing things is not implemented or supported, simply because nobody needs it.

Which brings us back to the question, why you think you "need" it this way.

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¹⁾ _{To my knowledge, numerous severe problems exist with the autotools and all the stuff needed to build Thrift under MinGW on a Windows machine. You will have to patch things, build some from source, spend a lot of time and do some strange things with your file system to make it work. At least that was the case when I stopped using MinGW to build Thrift about two years ago. And even if you get it to work, you still only get the compiler (which you could easily download in a fraction of that time), not the libraries.}