Did this not go through or do people simply not build on (or care about thrift compiler on) Windows? Has anyone else encountered similar problems? -Mark
On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 1:08 AM, Mark Schmit <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey guys, > I'm new to Thrift but am looking forward to playing with it. Unfortunately > I'm struggling to get a working Thrift compiler on Windows. I've built > thrift.exe in Cygwin with the no-cygwin-dependency path documented on > http://wiki.apache.org/thrift/ThriftInstallationWin32, but it seems to > only half-work. For example, when I try to generate C++ code using the > tutorial files, the compiler says this: > > [ERROR:c:\development\project\foo\thrift\tutorial.thrift:123] (last > token was 'shared.SharedService') > Service "shared.SharedService" has not been defined. > > The same command line works fine on Linux. Secondly, if I try compiling > shared.thrift directly, I only see SharedService.h/cpp and > SharedService_server.skeleton.cpp, while on Linux I also see > shared_types.h/cpp. I tried some other sample .thrift files and it seems > like I'm missing all of the thrift-file-related (as opposed to > service-related) C++ files. > > I tried generating Java and Python as well. Java seemed to work correctly, > outputting the same thing on both Linux and Windows. Python didn't output > *anything* on Windows, while it generated appropriate files and directories > on Linux. > > What's going on? Did I build thrift.exe incorrectly? Does something about > it not like Windows? Have others encountered similar problems? (Any chance > of a binary distribution of thrift.exe so I can expect the compiled binary > to do what it's supposed to?) > > -Mark >
