Pending approval from other committers, I'm going to commit a number of changes to Thrift's build scripts and source code (the latter are minor). A preview of the changes is at
http://gitweb.thrift-rpc.org/?p=thrift.git;a=log;h=refs/heads/pri/dreiss/build-changes;hb=HEAD You can click "commitdiff" next to each commit to see the full diff. I'll upload patches to JIRA shortly. These changes span the following issues: 500, 503, 505, 506, 507, 850, 865, 874. The new features include: - "make check"-enabled C++ tests moved from /test to /lib/cpp/test - configure accepts --disable-cpp to skip building the C++ runtime. - The compiler no longer depends on Boost. - The compiler no longer requires lex or yacc, if building from a release (or instant release) tarball. (This is why thrifty.h, thrifty.cc, and thriftl.cc are included in the tarballs. I just had to make a small change to remove the dependency on libfl.) - A script is included to cross-compile a Windows binary of the Thrift compiler from a stock Ubuntu 10.04 machine (with the gcc-ming32 package). I was able to build the compiler from a release-style tarball on a stock CentOS 5.2 machine (with g++ installed via yum) by running ./configure && make -C compiler/cpp Note that this machine does *not* have autoconf, automake, libtool, lex, flex, yacc, bison, or boost installed. I am not able to test on a Mac, but I would appreciate if the people who have had problems building on Mac OS X would download this tarball, run the same command, and report any problems they encounter. If I don't hear back, I will assume that there are no problems whatsoever building on Mac OS X: http://people.apache.org/~dreiss/thrift-e0db3ee.tar.gz Because procedure to cross-compile for Windows is so ridiculously easy, I will be producing Windows binaries of the compiler for all of our future releases. You can nab a build of the latest trunk at http://people.apache.org/~dreiss/thrift-e0db3ee.exe --David
