Question: I've been reading quite a bit about Thrift and it looks like a technology I'd really like to use. I'm having all sorts of trouble building the Windows distribution. I know a patch exists to build a Windows version, however I have not had much luck with this either.

Does anyone know of a pre-built distribution for Windows?

Or any suggestions on how to get the latest version of Thrift built (without turning my Windows machine into a pseudo \*nix box).

Thanks
Rich

Answer: 
I ported the client part of Thrift to Windows C++ for my own open-source project. It should be easily usable in other Win32 or WinCE projects.

<http://peoplesnote.codeplex.com> - src\Evernote API\Thrift
Yes there is, just download the exe from here:

<http://thrift.apache.org/download/>

exe listed for download there is standalone executable, no installation is needed.

I have used it to generate Smalltalk code, did not test other languages.