THRIFT-2571 doc and speed up travis build
diff --git a/compiler/cpp/README.md b/compiler/cpp/README.md
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@@ -1,15 +1,33 @@
# Build compiler using CMake
-Use the following steps to build using cmake
+Use the following steps to build using cmake:
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make
+
+### Create an eclipse project
+
+ mkdir build_ec && cd build_ec
+ cmake -G "Eclipse CDT4 - Unix Makefiles" ..
+ make
+
+Now open the folder build_ec using eclipse.
+
+
+### Cross compile using mingw32
+
+ mkdir build_mingw32 && cd build_mingw32
+ cmake -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=../../../contrib/mingw32-toolchain.cmake ..
+ make
+
+
+
## Build on windows
-In order to build on windows a few additional steps are necessary
+In order to build on windows a few additional steps are necessary:
1. Download winflexbison from http://sourceforge.net/projects/winflexbison/
2. Extract the winflex bison files to for e.g. C:\winflexbison
@@ -17,8 +35,21 @@
* FLEX_EXECUTBALE = C:/winbuild/win_flex.exe
* BISON_EXECUTBALE = C:/winbuild/win_bison.exe
+
+### Create a Visual Studio project
+
+ mkdir build_vs && cd build_vs
+ cmake -G "Visual Studio 12" ..
+
+Now open the folder build_vs using Visual Studio 2013.
+
+
+
+
# Building the Thrift IDL compiler in Windows
+If you don't want to use CMake you can use the already available Visual Studio
+2010 solution.
The Visual Studio project contains pre-build commands to generate the
thriftl.cc, thrifty.cc and thrifty.hh files which are necessary to build
the compiler. These depend on bison, flex and their dependencies to