RE: MS Visual Studio Support

[Mark Slee <ms...@facebook.com>]

(Expanding back out to the list.)

I'm slightly iffy on branching the code for this change. In which areas do you think the changes will be so substantial that we need a branch? Would it be possible to make these changes as a set of separate patch files -- is the concern that the different patches might be too overlapping?

Anyone else have suggestions/ideas on win32 implementations?

-----Original Message-----
From: anthony.abate@gmail.com [mailto:anthony.abate@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 7:08 AM
To: Mark Slee
Subject: Re: MS Visual Studio Support

Mark,

Ive already made changes for win32 versions of libevent, zlib, and pthreads... This was mostly minor code changes.

The more unix network headers and file IO stuff will require some rewrites. This can be done simply via #if def's, or my preference would be to use Boost where ever possible.

If you really would like to get this done, Id suggest branching the code.  Its way too big a change to try and create and merge patch files.  When its "done" who ever is in charge of the trunk can perform the final merge.

What are your thoughts?

-Anthony

On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 6:42 PM, Mark Slee <ms...@facebook.com> wrote:
> Yes, absolutely. I think it'd be great to have VSC++ support. I think this has come up before on-list, though I'm not sure if anyone has yet embarked upon starting to build support.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: anthony.abate@gmail.com [mailto:anthony.abate@gmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, November 10, 2008 6:49 AM
> To: Mark Slee
> Subject: MS Visual Studio Support
>
> Would there be any interest in making the thirft lib compile under VSC++ ?
>
> I think the lack of MS VC++ compilation is a big hurdle for Win32
> Developers.  I got thrift to compile using cygwin, but it seems
> unnatural from a win32 application development perspective to have to
> build something in cygwin before I can use it in Visual Studio
>
> I have no problem doing the C++ conversion as I have ported and worked on platform independent code using Boost Libraries and the ACE Framework.
>
> In addtion to C++.  I also have a lot C# experience. I created and submitted C# SSL wrappers to thrift.  Haven't heard any feedback, but it does work for me.
> (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-181)
>
> In any case, Id like to help out in the Win32 areas of the project including C++ and C#.
>
> --
> -Anthony
>



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-Anthony