[ARROW-6320] [C++] Arrow utilities are linked statically

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Done
• Fix Version/s: 0.16.0
• Component/s: C++, Developer Tools
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/22700
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Antoine Pitrou
• Created: 22/Aug/19 08:47
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:46
• Resolved: 14/Nov/19 13:13

Description

Even though other executables are linked dynamically with libarrow and friends, the arrow utilities are linked statically on Linux:

$ ldd build-test/debug/arrow-stream-to-file 
	linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffe353a8000)
	libboost_filesystem.so.1.67.0 => /home/antoine/miniconda3/envs/pyarrow/lib/libboost_filesystem.so.1.67.0 (0x00007f7baf7a1000)
	libboost_system.so.1.67.0 => /home/antoine/miniconda3/envs/pyarrow/lib/libboost_system.so.1.67.0 (0x00007f7baf59c000)
	libstdc++.so.6 => /home/antoine/miniconda3/envs/pyarrow/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007f7bb0522000)
	libgcc_s.so.1 => /home/antoine/miniconda3/envs/pyarrow/lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007f7bb050e000)
	libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f7baf37d000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007f7baef8c000)
	/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f7bb0471000)
	librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0x00007f7baed84000)
	libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007f7bae9e6000)