Deepak Majeti I took a quick look at this. boost::system symbols are getting pulled in as a transitive dependency to boost::filesystem. We need boost::filesystem for handling unicode file paths on Windows. Trying to conditionally use boost::filesystem only on Windows would be a lot of work without a great deal of benefit.

One solution to this problem would be to add an option to vendor the requisite Boost bits in parquet-cpp, like we've done in Arrow

https://github.com/apache/arrow/blob/master/cpp/CMakeLists.txt#L129

https://github.com/apache/arrow/blob/master/cpp/cmake_modules/ThirdpartyToolchain.cmake#L139

GitHub user majetideepak opened a pull request:

https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/1105

ARROW-1536:[C++] Do not transitively depend on libboost_system

You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running:

$ git pull https://github.com/majetideepak/arrow ARROW-1536

Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at:

https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/1105.patch

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commit 73eeb63a5426e47e7321d245c8059a3c341f983c
Author: Deepak Majeti <deepak.majeti@hpe.com>
Date: 2017-09-17T02:51:06Z

ARROW-1536:[C++] Do not transitively depend on libboost_system

Wes McKinney I made an attempt here https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/1105. Please let me know what you think. Thanks!

Github user wesm commented on the issue:

https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/1105

Can you also rebase? thanks

Issue resolved by pull request 1105
https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/1105

Github user asfgit closed the pull request at:

https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/1105