Thrift C++ Software Library

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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 boost thread.

libthriftnb This library contains the Thrift nonblocking server, which uses libevent. To link this library you will also need to link libevent.

Linking Against Thrift

You need to link your project that uses thrift against all the thrift dependancies; in the case of libthrift, 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

boost thread http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/release/doc/html/thread.html

libevent (for libthriftnb only) http://monkey.org/~provos/libevent/

Notes on boost thread (static vs shared):

By default lib/cpp/windows/force_inc.h defines:

#define BOOST_ALL_NO_LIB 1 #define BOOST_THREAD_NO_LIB 1

This has for effect to have the host application linking against Thrift to have to link with boost thread as a static library.

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.

Named Pipes

  • Named Pipe transport has been added in the TPipe and TPipeServer classes. This is currently Windows-only (see below).

Known issues

  • Named pipe transport for *NIX has not been implemented. Domain sockets are a better choice for local IPC under non-Windows OS's. *NIX named pipes only support 1:1 client-server connection.

TODO

  • Port remaining classes in libthrift:

    • TSSLSocket

  • Port test cases. (Not even started this. Run test cases in release mode?)

  • Autolink libraries depending on debug\release build.

  • Auto versioning.