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+Thrift D 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.
+
+Testing
+-------
+
+D support in Thrift is covered by two sets of tests: first,
+the unit test blocks contained in the D source files, and
+second, the more extensive testing applications in the test/
+subdirectory, which also make use of the Thrift compiler.
+Both are built when running "make check", but only the
+unit tests are immediately run, however – the separate test
+cases typically run longer or require manual intervention.
+It might also be prudent to run the independent tests,
+which typically consist of a server and a client part,
+against the other language implementations.
+
+To build the unit tests on Windows, the easiest way might
+be to manually create a file containing an empty main() and
+invoke the compiler by running the following in the src/
+directory (PowerShell syntax):
+
+dmd -ofunittest -unittest -w $(dir -r -filter '*.d' -name)
+
+If you want to run the test clients/servers in OpenSSL
+mode, you have to provide »server-private-key.pem« and
+»server-certificate.pem« files in the directory the server
+executable resides in, and a »trusted-ca-certificate.pem«
+file for the client. The easiest way is to generate a new
+self signed certificate using the provided config file
+(openssl.test.cnf):
+
+openssl req -new -x509 -nodes -config openssl.test.cnf \
+  -out server-certificate.pem
+cat server-certificate.pem > trusted-ca-certificate.pem
+
+This steps are also performed automatically by the
+Autotools build system if the files are not present.