this is a new issue and relates to attempts in compiling thrift on Windows in Cygwin environment. I did not make any progress using the Visual Studio. It just does not work.
However I'm following up the instructions mentioned here (https://thrift.apache.org/docs/install/windows) for Cygwin. Running ./configure gives me the following error. The full prinout is listed below. Thanks ./configure: line 17523: syntax error near unexpected token `fi' ./configure: line 17523: `fi' $ ./configure checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /usr/bin/mkdir -p checking for gawk... gawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... no checking whether make supports nested variables... no checking whether UID '21376805' is supported by ustar format... no checking whether GID '1049089' is supported by ustar format... yes checking how to create a ustar tar archive... none ./configure: line 3794: PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG: command not found checking for gcc... gcc checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking for C compiler default output file name... a.exe checking for suffix of executables... .exe checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed checking whether gcc understands -c and -o together... yes checking for style of include used by make... none checking dependency style of gcc... none checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E checking for g++... g++ checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes checking dependency style of g++... none checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-cygwin checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-cygwin checking how to print strings... printf checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /usr/bin/sed checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /usr/bin/grep checking for egrep... /usr/bin/grep -E checking for fgrep... /usr/bin/grep -F checking for ld used by gcc... /usr/x86_64-pc-cygwin/bin/ld.exe checking if the linker (/usr/x86_64-pc-cygwin/bin/ld.exe) is GNU ld... yes checking for BSD- or MS-compatible name lister (nm)... /usr/bin/nm -B checking the name lister (/usr/bin/nm -B) interface... BSD nm checking whether ln -s works... yes checking the maximum length of command line arguments... 8192 checking how to convert x86_64-unknown-cygwin file names to x86_64-unknown-cygwin format... func_convert_file_noop checking how to convert x86_64-unknown-cygwin file names to toolchain format... func_convert_file_noop checking for /usr/x86_64-pc-cygwin/bin/ld.exe option to reload object files... -r checking for objdump... objdump checking how to recognize dependent libraries... file_magic ^x86 archive import|^x86 DLL checking for dlltool... dlltool checking how to associate runtime and link libraries... func_cygming_dll_for_implib checking for ar... ar checking for archiver @FILE support... @ checking for strip... strip checking for ranlib... ranlib checking command to parse /usr/bin/nm -B output from gcc object... ok checking for sysroot... no checking for a working dd... /usr/bin/dd checking how to truncate binary pipes... /usr/bin/dd bs=4096 count=1 checking for mt... no checking if : is a manifest tool... no checking for ANSI C header files... yes checking for sys/types.h... yes checking for sys/stat.h... yes checking for stdlib.h... yes checking for string.h... yes checking for memory.h... yes checking for strings.h... yes checking for inttypes.h... yes checking for stdint.h... yes checking for unistd.h... yes checking for dlfcn.h... yes checking for objdir... .libs checking if gcc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions... no checking for gcc option to produce PIC... -DDLL_EXPORT -DPIC checking if gcc PIC flag -DDLL_EXPORT -DPIC works... yes checking if gcc static flag -static works... yes checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... yes checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... (cached) yes checking whether the gcc linker (/usr/x86_64-pc-cygwin/bin/ld.exe) supports shared libraries... yes checking whether -lc should be explicitly linked in... yes checking dynamic linker characteristics... Win32 ld.exe checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes checking whether to build shared libraries... yes checking whether to build static libraries... yes checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... g++ -E checking for ld used by g++... /usr/x86_64-pc-cygwin/bin/ld.exe checking if the linker (/usr/x86_64-pc-cygwin/bin/ld.exe) is GNU ld... yes checking whether the g++ linker (/usr/x86_64-pc-cygwin/bin/ld.exe) supports shared libraries... yes checking for g++ option to produce PIC... -DDLL_EXPORT -DPIC checking if g++ PIC flag -DDLL_EXPORT -DPIC works... yes checking if g++ static flag -static works... yes checking if g++ supports -c -o file.o... yes checking if g++ supports -c -o file.o... (cached) yes checking whether the g++ linker (/usr/x86_64-pc-cygwin/bin/ld.exe) supports shared libraries... yes checking dynamic linker characteristics... Win32 ld.exe checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... (cached) no checking for bison... yes checking for bison version >= 2.5... yes Unescaped left brace in regex is deprecated, passed through in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/\${ <-- HERE ([^ \t=:+{}]+)}/ at /usr/bin/automake-1.14 line 3930. checking for bison... bison -y checking for flex... flex checking lex output file root... lex.yy checking lex library... none needed checking whether yytext is a pointer... no checking whether ln -s works... yes checking for gawk... (cached) gawk checking for ranlib... (cached) ranlib checking whether g++ supports C++11 features by default... no checking whether g++ supports C++11 features with -std=c++11... yes ./configure: line 17523: syntax error near unexpected token `fi' ./configure: line 17523: `fi'
