title: Windows and Apache Thrift Executable
body: <p>I am testing out how simple Apache Thrift is to learn and it looks promising. One major problem: the first tutorial doesn't work...</p>
  
  <p>I have Windows 7, Python 2.7, and got the Thrift .exe for Windows v.0.9.1. I'd rather not compile from source as I don't use Cygwin etc. The exe gave the problems described below. So I moved on and tried using Chocolatey to install Thrift using
      cinst Thrift
  which worked fine and gave me Thrift v0.9.0. But this version results in the same behavior as the exe, described below.</p>
  
  <p>When I run the tutorial found at <a href="http://thrift.apache.org/tutorial/py" rel="nofollow">http://thrift.apache.org/tutorial/py</a> I get the following:</p>
  
  <pre><code>C:\Users\Me\Desktop\Thrift&gt;thrift -r --gen py tutorial.thrift
  [WARNING:C:/Users/Me/Desktop/Thrift/tutorial.thrift:59] Could not find include file shared.thrift
  
  [ERROR:C:/Users/Me/Desktop/Thrift/tutorial.thrift:123] (last token was 'shared.SharedService')
  Service "shared.SharedService" has not been defined.
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Hopefully the exe works for someone because I'd love to avoid this requiring a build from source.</p>