[ARROW-7642] [Rust] Create build.rs to generate flatbuffers files

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Invalid
• Component/s: Rust
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/23891
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Andy Grove
• Created: 22/Jan/20 03:48
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:55
• Resolved: 26/Apr/21 11:24

Description

We should take the logic from the regen.sh [1] bash script and convert it into a Rust build.rs script that can run in CI. This would require flatc to be installed to be able to build the project.

 

[1] https://github.com/apache/arrow/blob/master/rust/arrow/regen.sh