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The Installation section only covered building from source. A new subsection lists the ready-built ways to get the compiler on Windows: Chocolatey, the Apache.Thrift.Compiler .NET tool, the installer on the GitHub release and the plain executable on the download page. It also names the Visual C++ Redistributable the compiler needs, and what to do when the .NET tool asks for .NET 8 although a newer .NET is installed. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The Installation section of the README only explains how to build from source. This adds a subsection on getting the compiler ready-built on Windows:
choco install thriftApache.Thrift.Compilerfrom nuget.orgthrift-<version>-setup.exeattached to the GitHub releasethrift-<version>.exefrom the download pageIt also says where each one installs, which of them put
thrifton thePATH, and that the compiler needs the Visual C++ Redistributable.WinGet is not listed yet, because
Apache.Thrift(microsoft/winget-pkgs#445370) is still waiting for a moderator. It follows in a separate draft PR, #4034.For the redistributable, the README links Microsoft's "Latest supported Visual C++ Redistributable downloads" page rather than
https://aka.ms/vs/17/release/vc_redist.x64.exe: that link currently serves 14.44.35211, while the packages require 14.51 or later. #4036 (THRIFT-6441) replaces it where the installer and the .NET tool use it.The .NET tool 0.25.0 targets .NET 8 without roll forward, so on a machine with only .NET 9 or later,
thriftasks for .NET 8. The README tells readers to uninstall it and install it again with--allow-roll-forward: a seconddotnet tool installonly reports that the tool is already installed, anddotnet tool updatedoes not take the option. From the next release on, the package rolls forward by itself: #4035 (THRIFT-6440).Checked: all links resolve, and the GitHub markdown API renders the new heading inside Installation, before Package Managers. The reinstall sequence was tried in
mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/sdk:10.0.[skip ci].🤖 Generated with Claude Code