Thrift C Software Library

License

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http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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Using Thrift with C

The Thrift C libraries are built using the GNU tools. Follow the instructions in the top-level README in order to generate the Makefiles.

Dependencies

GLib http://www.gtk.org/

Breaking Changes

0.12.0

The compiler's handling of namespaces when generating the name of types, functions and header files has been improved. This means code written to use classes generated by previous versions of the compiler may need to be updated to reflect the proper convention for class names, which is

  • A lowercase, snake-case representation of the class' namespace, followed by
  • An underscore and
  • A lowercase, snake-case representation of the class' name.