README.md

Arrow C++

Arrow uses CMake as a build configuration system. Currently, it supports in-source and out-of-source builds with the latter one being preferred.

Arrow requires a C++11-enabled compiler. On Linux, gcc 4.8 and higher should be sufficient.

To build the thirdparty build dependencies, run:

./thirdparty/download_thirdparty.sh
./thirdparty/build_thirdparty.sh

You can also run from the root of the C++ tree

source setup_build_env.sh

Arrow is configured to use the thirdparty directory by default for its build dependencies. To set up a custom toolchain see below.

Simple debug build:

mkdir debug
cd debug
cmake ..
make
ctest

Simple release build:

mkdir release
cd release
cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
make
ctest

To set up your own specific build toolchain, here are the relevant environment variables