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+Thrift C++ Software Library
+
+License
+=======
+
+Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file
+distributed with this work for additional information
+regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file
+to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+"License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+  http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+"AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the
+specific language governing permissions and limitations
+under the License.
+
+Using Thrift with C++
+=====================
+
+You need to define an enviroment variable called THIRD_PARTY. The project
+assumes that you have extracted the dependancies into their default structure
+into the path defined by THIRD_PARTY.
+
+e.g. $(THIRD_PARTY)/boost/boost_1_47_0/
+
+Thrift is divided into two libraries.
+
+libthrift
+  The core Thrift library contains all the core Thrift code. It requires
+  boost shared pointers and pthreads_win32.
+
+libthriftnb
+  This library contains the Thrift nonblocking server, which uses libevent.
+  To link this library you will also need to link libevent.
+
+You MUST apply this patch to make generated code compile.
+https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-1139
+
+Linking Against Thrift
+======================
+
+You need to link your project that uses thrift against all the thrift
+dependancies; in the case of libthrift, pthreads_win32, boost and for
+libthriftnb, libevent.
+
+In the project properties you must also set HAVE_CONFIG_H as force include
+the config header: "windows/confg.h"
+
+Dependencies
+============
+
+boost shared pointers
+http://www.boost.org/libs/smart_ptr/smart_ptr.htm
+
+libevent (for libthriftnb only)
+http://monkey.org/~provos/libevent/
+
+pthreads win32
+http://sources.redhat.com/pthreads-win32/
+
+Known issues
+============
+
+- Endianess has not been fully tested, may not work with doubles.
+- Currently does not support the non-blocking connect path.
+- Only supports the creation of clients, server sockets are not yet ported.
+- Does not support named pipes. (Supported in unix through unix domain sockets).
+
+TODO
+====
+
+- Port remaining classes in libthrift:
+    - TFDTransport
+    - TFileTransport
+    - THttpClient
+    - THttpServer
+    - TSimpleFileTransport
+    - TSSLSocket
+
+- Port test cases. (Not even started this. Run test cases in release mode?)
+
+- Autolink libraries depending on debug\release build.
+
+- Auto versioning.