[THRIFT-4081] Provide a MinGW 64-bit Appveyor CI build for better pull request validation

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.10.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.11.0
• Component/s: Build Process

Environment

Appveyor

• Assignee: James E. King III
• Reporter: James E. King III
• Created: 09/Feb/17 15:08
• Updated: 14/Dec/17 13:55
• Resolved: 10/Mar/17 11:20

Description

We currently build in Visual Studio 2015 on Appveyor. We do not use the Windows CI environment to verify that MinGW still builds successfully (there is a 32-bit job on linux, #16, which runs on every pull request). I would recommend that we add a CI build job to Appveyor and/or extend the existing job to build with the latest MinGW 64-bit environment which includes gcc-6.3.0; we could perhaps remove Travis job #16 which is using 32-bit mingw on linux as a result?

Issue Links

• is blocked by: THRIFT-3921 C++ code should print enums as strings
• is related to: THRIFT-4106 concurrency_test fails randomly
• relates to: THRIFT-3973 Remove MSVC C++ projects to improve maintainability; document building Thrift on Windows using CMake to generate project files
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #1205