[ARROW-6634] [C++] Do not require flatbuffers or flatbuffers_ep to build

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.16.0
• Component/s: C++
• Labels: pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/22986
• Assignee: Wes McKinney
• Reporter: Wes McKinney
• Created: 20/Sep/19 00:29
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:48
• Resolved: 03/Oct/19 20:58

Description

Flatbuffers is small enough that we can vendor flatbuffers/flatbuffers.h and check in the compiled files to make flatbuffers_ep unneeded

Issue Links

• is a child of: ARROW-6637 [C++] Zero-dependency default core build
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #5464
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #5574