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c++visual-studio-2008windows-7thrift
user1704863
user1704863

Reputation: 404

installing thrift idl

Basically I have no idea how to create the lib files. The VS solution that come with thrift(0.9.0) say they are created with a newer version and therefore cant' be open with VS 2008. I've also tried installing or running the ./bootstrap.sh but I keep getting an error saying that the file is not an executable.I've been screwing with this for hours and can't figure it out so if someone who knows how to install thrift please guide me.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 314

Answers (2)

Michael Popovich
Michael Popovich

Reputation: 301

You need use VS2012 and boost_155 like minimum to create the thrift lib files.

Upvotes: 0

ducin
ducin

Reputation: 26467

I haven't been using thrift on windows, but I hope it doesn't matter. First you have to install thrift locally (0.8.0, 0.9.0, whatever). On linux you run ./configure, make, make install. Once you've got your thrift locally installed, you do have the thrift binary and you should make sure it is on the shell path (on linux it's /usr/local/bin/thrift). Then create a thrift definition file with a service, run the thrift binary against that file and thrift will generate code for you (I assume you'll generate C++ code).

Now - for each programming language thrift generates different files, of course. In scripting languages you have to include them manually. In Java you will have a package and you can use it in the rest of the code. And in C++ you'll get .h and .cpp files which you should compile into a library. I strongly encourage you to use cmake, which is a wonderful tool to perform such things automatically.

Anyway, I wouldn't expect that MS Visual Studio will happily cooperate with open source software such as Apache Software Foundation projects ;)

Upvotes: 1

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