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+# Apache Thrift - CMake Build
+
+## Goal
+
+Extend Apache Thrift's *make cross* approach to the build system.
+
+Due to growing the field of operating system support, a proper executable
+and library detection mechanism running on as much platforms as possible
+becomes required. The other aspect to simplify the release process and
+package generation process.
+
+As nice side benefit of CMake is the generation of development environment
+specific soultion files. => No solution files within source tree.
+
+## Prerequisites
+
+These are language-specific, however for C++ you must provide:
+
+- Boost
+- OpenSSL
+
+You may optionally provide:
+
+- libevent
+- zlib
+
+## Usage
+
+To use CMake you first create an out-of-tree build directory, then use
+CMake to generate a build framework, then build:
+
+    mkdir /tmp/build
+    cd /tmp/build
+    cmake /location/to/thrift
+
+if you use a specific toolchain pass it to cmake, the same for options:
+
+    cmake -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=../build/cmake/mingw32-toolchain.cmake ..
+    cmake -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=clang-3.5 -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=clang++-3.5 ..
+    cmake -DTHRIFT_COMPILER_HS=OFF ..
+    cmake -DWITH_ZLIB=ON ..
+
+and open the development environment you like with the solution or do this:
+
+    make
+    make check
+    make cross
+    make dist
+
+or on Windows, the following will produce a solution file you can use
+inside Visual Studio:
+
+    cmake -G "Visual Studio 15 2017 Win64" \
+      -DBOOST_ROOT=C:/3rdparty/boost_1_69_0 \
+      -DBOOST_LIBRARYDIR=C:/3rdparty/boost_1_69_0/lib64-msvc-14.1^
+      -DZLIB_ROOT=C:/3rdparty/zlib-1.2.11
+
+<!--
+To generate an installer and distribution package do this:
+
+    cpack
+-->
+
+## TODO
+
+* git hash or tag based versioning depending on source state
+* build tutorial
+* build test
+* enable/disable
+* make cross
+* make dist (create an alias to make package_source)
+* make doc
+* cpack (C++ and make dist only ?)
+  * thrift-compiler
+  * libthrift
+  * tutorial
+  * test
+* merge into /README.md
+\ No newline at end of file