[C++] Can't link to installed arrow_flight_static due to missing symbols in libarrow_bundled_dependencies

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Reported by Radu on the mailing list.

I can reproduce the symptoms on Ubuntu 16.04, using the system compiler (GCC 7.5.0). CMake command:

cmake ../cpp -DClangTools_PATH=/home/lidavidm/Code/clang/bin -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug -GNinja -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=(pwd)/../install -DCMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR=lib -DARROW_USE_GLOG=ON -DARROW_PARQUET=ON -DARROW_WITH_SNAPPY=ON -DARROW_DATASET=ON -DARROW_CSV=ON -DARROW_JSON=ON -DARROW_PYTHON=ON -DARROW_WITH_LZ4=ON -DARROW_FLIGHT=ON -DARROW_DEPENDENCY_SOURCE=BUNDLED 

CMakeLists.txt:

cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.18)

project(ArrowMinimalExample)

find_package(Arrow REQUIRED)
find_package(ArrowFlight REQUIRED)

set(CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD 11)
set(CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE Release)

message(STATUS "Arrow version: ${ARROW_VERSION}")
message(STATUS "Arrow SO version: ${ARROW_FULL_SO_VERSION}")

add_executable(arrow_example example.cc)

set(THREADS_PREFER_PTHREAD_FLAG ON)
find_package(Threads REQUIRED)
target_link_libraries(arrow_example PRIVATE arrow_static arrow_flight_static Threads::Threads)

 
example.cc:

#include <arrow/flight/api.h>
#include <arrow/status.h>

#include <iostream>

namespace flight = ::arrow::flight;

using arrow::Status;

namespace {

// Flight service
class SimpleFlightServer : public flight::FlightServerBase {};

Status RunMain(int argc, char** argv) {
  std::unique_ptr<flight::FlightServerBase> server;
  server.reset(new SimpleFlightServer());

  flight::Location bind_location;
  ARROW_RETURN_NOT_OK(flight::Location::ForGrpcTcp("0.0.0.0", 3003, &bind_location));
  flight::FlightServerOptions options(bind_location);

  ARROW_RETURN_NOT_OK(server->Init(options));
  ARROW_RETURN_NOT_OK(server->SetShutdownOnSignals({SIGTERM}));
  ARROW_RETURN_NOT_OK(server->Serve());

  return Status::OK();
}

}  // namespace

int main(int argc, char** argv) {
  Status st = RunMain(argc, argv);
  if (!st.ok()) {
    std::cerr << st << std::endl;
    return 1;
  }
  return 0;
}

When building, this results in a long string of linker errors.

Link command:

/usr/bin/c++ -O3 -DNDEBUG  CMakeFiles/arrow_example.dir/example.cc.o -o arrow_example  /home/lidavidm/Code/upstream/arrow-deps/install/lib/libarrow.a  /home/lidavidm/Code/upstream/arrow-deps/install/lib/libarrow_flight.a  -pthread  /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libssl.so  /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcrypto.so  -lrt  /home/lidavidm/Code/upstream/arrow-deps/install/lib/libarrow_bundled_dependencies.a 

At first glance:

• Some Abseil libraries aren't bundled, e.g. str_format_internal
• Even when bundled, they don't actually make it into the final static archive! (confirmed with nm) Playing around with ar myself, it works fine if I just combine a subset of the libraries, but with all the libraries, we end up with undefined symbols.
• The dependencies aren't ordered correctly - OpenSSL needs to come after libarrow_bundled_dependencies.a not before.

Reporter: David Li / @lidavidm
Assignee: Rok Mihevc / @rok
Watchers: Rok Mihevc / @rok

Related issues:

• [C++] Exported arrow_static requires needless dependencies (relates to)
• [C++] Add nightly test for static build with arrow_flight_static and arrow_bundled_dependencies (is related to)
• [C++][FlightRPC] Try to upgrade bundled gRPC version (is related to)

PRs and other links:

• GitHub Pull Request #11889

_{Note: This issue was originally created as ARROW-14708. Please see the migration documentation for further details.}

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Rok Mihevc / @rok:
@coryan Is there a "right way" to discover missing abseil dependencies given our setup?

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Kouhei Sutou / @kou:
Issue resolved by pull request 11889
#11889