THRIFT-1512 Thrift socket support for Windows XP
Patch: Peace C
git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/thrift/trunk@1241171 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
diff --git a/lib/cpp/README_WINDOWS b/lib/cpp/README_WINDOWS
index 3a00b3a..a955949 100644
--- a/lib/cpp/README_WINDOWS
+++ b/lib/cpp/README_WINDOWS
@@ -75,6 +75,13 @@
If you wanted instead to link with boost thread as a shared library,
you'll need to uncomment those two lines, and recompile.
+Windows version compatibility
+=============================
+The Thrift library targets Windows XP for broadest compatbility. A notable
+difference is in the Windows-specific implementation of the socket poll
+function. To target Vista, Win7 or other versions, comment out the line
+#define TARGET_WIN_XP.
+
Known issues
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