GH-49538: [C++][FlightRPC][ODBC] Use static linkage in Windows FlightSQL ODBC driver by amoeba · Pull Request #49585 · apache/arrow

amoeba · 2026-03-24T00:49:24Z

Rationale for this change

The FlightSQL ODBC driver was previously using dynamic linkage for the Arrow deps it relies on. This worked but prevented a challenge for code signing because (I think) we'd have to sign each DLL and signing costs money. We can use static linkage with a dynamically linked MSVC runtime so we only have one DLL to sign.

Ref: #49404

What changes are included in this PR?

Updates to CMake and CI for the build to allow static linkage with dynamic MSVC runtime (x64-windows-static-md).

Are these changes tested?

Yes.

Are there any user-facing changes?

No.

GitHub Issue: [C++][FlightRPC][ODBC] Change Windows ODBC to Static Linkage #49538

github-actions · 2026-03-24T00:49:47Z

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amoeba · 2026-03-24T01:42:16Z

I have this building locally. Before this PR:

Dump of file release\arrow_flight_sql_odbc.dll
File Type: DLL
Image has the following dependencies:
arrow_flight_sql.dll
arrow_flight.dll
WSOCK32.dll
WS2_32.dll
CRYPT32.dll
GDI32.dll
arrow_compute.dll
arrow.dll
abseil_dll.dll
boost_locale-vc143-mt-x64-1_90.dll
KERNEL32.dll
USER32.dll
COMDLG32.dll
MSVCP140.dll
MSVCP140_CODECVT_IDS.dll
VCRUNTIME140.dll
VCRUNTIME140_1.dll
api-ms-win-crt-runtime-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-crt-heap-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-crt-string-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-crt-stdio-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-crt-locale-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-crt-convert-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-crt-filesystem-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-crt-time-l1-1-0.dll

After:

Dump of file cpp\build\release\arrow_flight_sql_odbc.dll
File Type: DLL
Image has the following dependencies:
ADVAPI32.dll
IPHLPAPI.DLL
WSOCK32.dll
GDI32.dll
WS2_32.dll
CRYPT32.dll
KERNEL32.dll
USER32.dll
COMDLG32.dll
bcrypt.dll
dbghelp.dll

github-actions · 2026-04-18T01:24:07Z

⚠️ GitHub issue #49538has been automatically assigned in GitHub to PR creator.

lidavidm

CC @alinaliBQ

alinaliBQ

@amoeba I see the branch is about a week old, could we rebase on the latest main? I see there are no conflicts, but I am curious to see if the test code changes at odbc_impl in this PR can incidentally help with #49767 (not required for this PR)

I have tested the ODBC MSI installer manually, and can confirm I am able to retrieve data from Power BI using the installer and static linkage ODBC.

alinaliBQ

I was able to build and test release ODBC on my Windows machine locally. But I am getting this error on debug:

I have built from scratch and kept getting this error after several tries. I think this error was from a pre-existing issue where static Debug mode on MSVC was not supported.

absl_synchronization.lib(mutex.cc.obj) : error LNK2005: "private: void __cdecl absl::lts_20250814::Mutex::Dtor(void)" (?Dtor
@Mutex@lts_20250814@absl@@AEAAXXZ) already defined in arrow_flight_static.lib(grpc_client.obj) [C:\path\to\arrow\cpp\static-debug-build\src\arrow\flight\sql\arrow-flight-sql-test.vcxproj]
C:\path\to\arrow\cpp\static-debug-build\debug\Debug\arrow-flight-sql-test.exe : fatal error LNK1169: one or more multiply defined symbols found [C:\path\to\arrow\cpp\static-debug-build\src\arrow\flight\sql\arrow-flight-sql-test.vcxproj]
Building Custom Rule C:/path/to/arrow/cpp/src/arrow/flight/CMakeLists.txt
test_server.cc
absl_synchronization.lib(mutex.cc.obj) : error LNK2005: "private: void __cdecl absl::lts_20250814::Mutex::Dtor(void)" (?Dtor
@Mutex@lts_20250814@absl@@AEAAXXZ) already defined in arrow_flight_static.lib(protocol_grpc_internal.obj) [C:\path\to\arrow\cpp\static-debug-build\src\arrow\flight\flight-test-server.vcxproj]
C:\path\to\arrow\cpp\static-debug-build\debug\Debug\flight-test-server.exe : fatal error
LNK1169: one or more multiply defined symbols found [C:\path\to\arrow\cpp\static-debug-build\src\arrow\flight\flight-test-server.vcxproj]

(and many errors that look similar)

Since #48964 changes absl bundling, maybe rebasing to main will fix this error on debug static builds.

amoeba · 2026-04-21T23:54:46Z

Thanks for testing @alinaliBQ. I just rebased and I'll try a debug build locally and report back.

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 void ODBCTestBase::TearDown() {
- ASSERT_EQ(SQL_SUCCESS, SQLFreeHandle(SQL_HANDLE_STMT, stmt));
+ if (connected) {
+ ASSERT_EQ(SQL_SUCCESS, SQLFreeHandle(SQL_HANDLE_STMT, stmt));
+ }
+}


+void ODBCTestBase::TearDownTestSuite() {
+ if (connected) {
+ // WORKAROUND GH-49585: Skip Disconnect() to avoid segfault when run through CTest
+ //
+ // When tests are run through CTest (but NOT when run directly from cmd.exe),
+ // SQLFreeHandle(SQL_HANDLE_ENV) crashes during cleanup. The crash occurs only with
+ // static linkage (ARROW_TEST_LINKAGE=static) and happens while freeing the ODBC
+ // environment handle, which triggers cleanup of statically-linked gRPC/Flight
+ // resources.
+ //
+ // Root cause appears to be CTest's process management (signal handling, I/O
+ // redirection, or environment differences) interfering with gRPC cleanup during
+ // static destruction.
+ //
+ // This workaround leaks the ODBC handles but allows tests to complete successfully.
+ // A proper fix would require ensuring gRPC is kept alive until all ODBC handles are
+ // freed, or switching to dynamic linkage for tests.
+ //
+ // Disconnect();
+ connected = false;
+ }
+}


@@ -91,8 +102,6 @@ add_arrow_lib(arrow_flight_sql_odbc
 ${ARROW_FLIGHT_SQL_ODBC_SRCS}
 DEFINITIONS
 UNICODE


+if(WIN32
+ AND CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE STREQUAL "Debug"
+ AND ARROW_FLIGHT_TEST_LINKAGE STREQUAL "static")
+ foreach(LIB_TARGET ${ARROW_FLIGHT_SQL_ODBC_LIBRARIES})
+ target_link_options(${LIB_TARGET} PRIVATE "/FORCE:MULTIPLE")
+ endforeach()
+endif()


+if(WIN32
+ AND CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE STREQUAL "Debug"
+ AND ARROW_FLIGHT_TEST_LINKAGE STREQUAL "static")
+ if(TARGET arrow_odbc_spi_impl_cli)
+ target_link_options(arrow_odbc_spi_impl_cli PRIVATE "/FORCE:MULTIPLE")
+ endif()
+ if(TARGET arrow-odbc-spi-impl-test)
+ target_link_options(arrow-odbc-spi-impl-test PRIVATE "/FORCE:MULTIPLE")
+ endif()
+endif()


+if(WIN32
+ AND CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE STREQUAL "Debug"
+ AND ARROW_FLIGHT_TEST_LINKAGE STREQUAL "static")
+ foreach(LIB_TARGET ${ARROW_FLIGHT_SQL_LIBRARIES})
+ target_link_options(${LIB_TARGET} PRIVATE "/FORCE:MULTIPLE")
+ endforeach()
+endif()


+ if(WIN32
+ AND CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE STREQUAL "Debug"
+ AND ARROW_FLIGHT_TEST_LINKAGE STREQUAL "static")
+ foreach(TEST_TARGET arrow-flight-sql-test flight-sql-test-server flight-sql-test-app)
+ if(TARGET ${TEST_TARGET})
+ target_link_options(${TEST_TARGET} PRIVATE "/FORCE:MULTIPLE")
+ endif()
+ endforeach()
+ endif()


+if(WIN32
+ AND CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE STREQUAL "Debug"
+ AND ARROW_FLIGHT_TEST_LINKAGE STREQUAL "static")
+ foreach(LIB_TARGET ${ARROW_FLIGHT_LIBRARIES})
+ target_link_options(${LIB_TARGET} PRIVATE "/FORCE:MULTIPLE")
+ endforeach()
+endif()


+if(WIN32
+ AND CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE STREQUAL "Debug"
+ AND ARROW_FLIGHT_TEST_LINKAGE STREQUAL "static")
+ set(FLIGHT_TEST_EXES
+ arrow-flight-internals-test
+ arrow-flight-test
+ flight-test-server
+ arrow-flight-perf-server
+ arrow-flight-benchmark)
+ foreach(test_exe ${FLIGHT_TEST_EXES})
+ if(TARGET ${test_exe})
+ target_link_options(${test_exe} PRIVATE "/FORCE:MULTIPLE")
+ endif()
+ endforeach()
+endif()


+ ARROW_DEPENDENCY_USE_SHARED: OFF
+ ARROW_MIMALLOC: OFF
+ ARROW_TEST_LINKAGE: shared
+ ARROW_USE_STATIC_CRT: OFF


amoeba · 2026-06-09T23:53:09Z

I rebased and will work on cleaning this up this week.

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