GitHub user jeking3 reopened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/thrift/pull/456
THRIFT-2850 cmake win cpp library and unit tests I made changes to the cmake environment so that cmake can build the compiler, static libraries and unit tests on Windows. In my testing I found that the shared thrift library build is not exporting any symbols so no IMPLIB is being generated (that would be thrift.lib or thriftd.lib), so none of the unit tests would link, nor would thriftz. Here's the command I used to generate the environment: mkdir thrift-build cd thrift-build "C:\Program Files (x86)\CMake\bin\cmake.exe" ..\thrift -G"NMake Makefiles" -DWITH_SHARED_LIB=OFF -DWITH_BOOSTTHREADS=ON -DBOOST_ROOT=C:\Boost -DZLIB_ROOT=C:\win3p\tools\x64\zlib-1.2.5 -DOPENSSL_ROOT_DIR=C:\win3p\tools\x64\openssl-1.0.1b -DFLEX_EXECUTABLE=C:\Users\Jim\workspace\winflexbison\win_flex.exe -DBISON_EXECUTABLE=C:\Users\Jim\workspace\winflexbison\win_bison.exe You can also use -G"Visual Studio 10 Win64" to get a thrift.sln file that you can use to load visual studio, this example is for Visual Studio 2010. Visual Studio 2013 would be -G"Visual Studio 12 Win64". I was not able to get the nonblocking server to build because libevent requires autoconf to generate a "event-config.h", and the libevent nmake project does not produce one of these, so I could not compile the non-blocking server; further the libevent header "event.h" conflicts with the Windows Platform SDK header Event.h, so FindLibevent.cmake always finds the Platform SDK as an include directory, so I did not attempt to get it working right now. Tested this on Windows and on Ubuntu 12.04 using CMake-3.2.2. When running the tests on Windows you need to put the library paths into your PATH environment for boost, openssl so that they can be found. The CMake environment does not copy required libraries into the "bin" directory at this time. You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/jeking3/thrift feature/cmake-win-cpp-library-build Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/thrift/pull/456.patch To close this pull request, make a commit to your master/trunk branch with (at least) the following in the commit message: This closes #456 ---- commit 4f27ece54ef90358ea2efe529786196c92d1a493 Author: Jim King <jim.k...@simplivity.com> Date: 2015-04-21T15:39:08Z cmake changes for windows to build through unit tests, WITH_STATIC_LIBS only, and resolve some compiler warnings commit 63f9fd1ed4dd18cf531f0015750cca1773603583 Author: Jim King <jim.k...@simplivity.com> Date: 2015-04-21T16:00:02Z fix cmake changes from windows on linux commit 3027c3e674575d2072dc01ebaece37855dec135a Author: Jim King <jim.k...@simplivity.com> Date: 2015-04-21T16:24:40Z put unicode definitions back where they were commit ea41263f5d2e9deaecb5d933ea1996704cb42d79 Author: Jim King <jim.k...@simplivity.com> Date: 2015-04-21T16:25:41Z Merge branch 'master' into feature/cmake-win-cpp-library-build commit ac894b9d5d822834fd019fd0c9d7eaa16fcd97da Author: Jim King <jim.k...@simplivity.com> Date: 2015-04-21T20:48:29Z fix cmake windows debug unit test environment commit 82bb8d73c1bda126ca570615de9951a09ad8277e Author: Jim King <jim.k...@simplivity.com> Date: 2015-04-22T04:29:15Z on windows, disable much of the TFDTransport test due to MSVCRT assertions ---- --- If your project is set up for it, you can reply to this email and have your reply appear on GitHub as well. If your project does not have this feature enabled and wishes so, or if the feature is enabled but not working, please contact infrastructure at infrastruct...@apache.org or file a JIRA ticket with INFRA. ---