[ARROW-5101] [Packaging] Avoid bundling static libraries in Windows conda packages

• Type: Wish
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.13.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.14.1
• Component/s: C++, Packaging
• Labels: conda
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/21588
• Assignee: Krisztian Szucs
• Reporter: Antoine Pitrou
• Created: 03/Apr/19 08:29
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:38
• Resolved: 28/Aug/19 17:32

Description

We're currently bundling static libraries in Windows conda packages. Unfortunately, it causes these to be quite large:

$ ls -la ./Library/lib
total 507808
drwxrwxr-x 4 antoine antoine      4096 avril  3 10:28 .
drwxrwxr-x 5 antoine antoine      4096 avril  3 10:28 ..
-rw-rw-r-- 1 antoine antoine   1507048 avril  1 20:58 arrow.lib
-rw-rw-r-- 1 antoine antoine     76184 avril  1 20:59 arrow_python.lib
-rw-rw-r-- 1 antoine antoine  61323846 avril  1 21:00 arrow_python_static.lib
-rw-rw-r-- 1 antoine antoine 328090000 avril  1 21:02 arrow_static.lib
drwxrwxr-x 3 antoine antoine      4096 avril  3 10:28 cmake
-rw-rw-r-- 1 antoine antoine    491292 avril  1 21:02 parquet.lib
-rw-rw-r-- 1 antoine antoine 128473780 avril  1 21:03 parquet_static.lib
drwxrwxr-x 2 antoine antoine      4096 avril  3 10:27 pkgconfig

(see files in https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/arrow-cpp/files )

We should probably only ship dynamic libraries under Windows, as those are reasonably small.