Arrow uses CMake as a build configuration system. Currently, it supports in-source and out-of-source builds with the latter one being preferred. For third-party dependencies, Arrow relies on the native-toolchain to provide suitable binaries.
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 clean up a build simply remove the build directory (rm -Rf debug). Please be aware
that for in-source builds, correctly cleaning up cached CMake state is not as easy
possible and thus out-of-source builds should be preferred.
This will download pre-built artifacts for the thirdparty dependencies and the compiler, configure, build and test arrow. In case you want to have more control over the build and toolchain environment, you can follow these steps.
git clone https://github.com/cloudera/native-toolchain
cd native-toolchain
./buildall.sh # This will take about 2h
cd ../arrow
export NATIVE_TOOLCHAIN=`pwd`/../native-toolchain/build
mkdir debug
cd debug
cmake ..
make
ctest