Issue
I'm trying to compile the examples under cpp starting with minimal_build. I don't have much cmake experience. Must this be run under docker, or can it just be compiled in a Linux shell? I'm running Centos7 on a AWS EC2 instance, and I've installed cmake 3.20.2. Executing sudo ./run.sh, errors immediately with "cd: /io: No such file or directory". When I try and make what I think are the necessary changes to the scripts, I keep hitting errors. So I just want to see is this is even possible before proceeding further.
Thanks.
Solution
Yes, it is possible. I recently built Arrow on CentOS 7. With any C++ project there are going to be challenges switching amongst Linux distributions. The docker image is a way to provide a single example that the Arrow project can verify. You will need to adapt your Linux environment based on the issues you encounter. @Tsyvarev is also correct, you will want to use run_static.sh instead of run.sh. In order to do this you will need to dive a bit further into the details.
The build script has two steps. First, it will build the Arrow project itself. This is probably going to be the more challenging step. This guide is helpful for this step and provides a lot more detail into how Arrow builds and what options there are. The second step will be to compile and build the example.
Specifically for CentOS 7 one of the challenges you will face is that you will need a newer version of CMake. I ended up building CMake from source. If you go this route you also need to make sure that CMake is built with curl/https support. I used the --system-curl option for this.
That is all I remember having to do special for CentOS 7 at the moment. As you go about this task if you run into further, more specific, issues, feel free to ask them here or on the Arrow dev/user mailing list.
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