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Building google-cloud-cpp-bigquery with Bazel

As Apache Arrow does not provide native bazel support, nor does the Bazel Central Registry currently contain a module for it, building this library with bazel requires some extra steps.

If Apache Arrow is not already installed, you can likely obtain it from your preferred package manager, or it can be built from source and installed via:

curl -fsSL https://github.com/apache/arrow/archive/apache-arrow-18.1.0.tar.gz | \
    tar -xzf - --strip-components=1 && \
    cmake \
      -GNinja -S cpp -B cmake-out \
      --preset ninja-release-minimal \
      -DARROW_JEMALLOC=OFF \
      -DARROW_BUILD_STATIC=ON  && \
    cmake --build cmake-out --target install

First, we have to rely on WORKSPACE.bazel files and cannot take advantage of bazel modules.

In your WORKSPACE.bazel file, you will need to add:

native.new_local_repository(
    name = "libarrow",
    path = "/usr/local/",
    build_file = "//bazel:arrow.BUILD",
)

And provide a minimal arrow.BUILD file:

cc_import(
    name = "libarrow",
    hdrs = glob(["include/arrow/*.h"]),
    interface_library = "lib64/libarrow.so",
    static_library = "lib64/libarrow.a",
    system_provided = True,
    visibility = ["//visibility:public"],
)

Take note of the include and lib paths the WORKSPACE.bazel and arrow.BUILD files specify as these are the locations bazel expects to find the installed artifacts. If your system does not install the headers and libraries to these locations, you may need to create symbolic links:

mkdir -p /usr/local/lib64
ln -s $(find /usr -name libarrow.a) /usr/local/lib64/libarrow.a
ln -s $(find /usr -name libarrow.so) /usr/local/lib64/libarrow.so
ln -s $(find /usr/include -name arrow -type d) /usr/local/include/arrow

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib64:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}