Hi Hannes, replies inline: > I'm trying Thrift out for the first time. I've had numerous issues with > building Thrift on Windows and I'm wondering if and how it should be done.
The Thrift *compiler* can be built on Windows, with the aid of Cygwin and/or MinGW. There is some documentation on how to do this on the wiki, but given your next comment I'll assume you followed it. Can you post any specific errors you encountered? > Would it be a good or bad idea to serve a binary package of the Windows > version for easier and better user-experience? I would like to see binaries distributed eventually. At my company, we distribute Thrift internally via a Windows setup file after building. If Thrift begins distributing binaries, perhaps the NSIS script would be useful? > Can some one tell me where to start? I personally found it useful to begin with the tutorial and then read the Facebook contrib files and the Hbase API. - Michael Greene
