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+#
+# 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.
+#
+
+
+# Visual Studio specific options
+if(MSVC)
+    #For visual studio the library naming is as following:
+    # Dynamic libraries:
+    #  - thfirt.dll  for release library
+    #  - thriftd.dll for debug library
+    #
+    # Static libraries:
+    #  - thriftmd.lib for /MD release build
+    #  - thriftmt.lib for /MT release build
+    #
+    #  - thriftmdd.lib for /MD debug build
+    #  - thriftmtd.lib for /MT debug build
+    #
+    # the same holds for other libraries like libthriftz etc.
+
+    # For Debug build types, append a "d" to the library names.
+    set(CMAKE_DEBUG_POSTFIX "d" CACHE STRING "Set debug library postfix" FORCE)
+    set(CMAKE_RELEASE_POSTFIX "" CACHE STRING "Set release library postfix" FORCE)
+
+
+    # Build using /MT option instead of /MD if the WITH_MT options is set
+    if(WITH_MT)
+        set(CompilerFlags
+                CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS
+                CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS_DEBUG
+                CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS_RELEASE
+                CMAKE_C_FLAGS
+                CMAKE_C_FLAGS_DEBUG
+                CMAKE_C_FLAGS_RELEASE
+                )
+        foreach(CompilerFlag ${CompilerFlags})
+          string(REPLACE "/MD" "/MT" ${CompilerFlag} "${${CompilerFlag}}")
+        endforeach()
+        set(STATIC_POSTFIX "mt" CACHE STRING "Set static library postfix" FORCE)
+    else(WITH_MT)
+        set(STATIC_POSTFIX "md" CACHE STRING "Set static library postfix" FORCE)
+    endif(WITH_MT)
+endif(MSVC)
+
+# GCC Specific
+if(CMAKE_COMPILER_IS_GNUCC OR CMAKE_COMPILER_IS_GNUCXX)
+  # TODO: -pedantic can not be used at the moment because of: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-2784
+  #set(CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS "${CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS} -std=c++11 -O2 -Wall -Wextra -pedantic")
+endif()