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alinaliBQ · 2026-10-05T19:07:42Z

Rationale for this change

#51614

What changes are included in this PR?

Output universal .pkg installer that work on both ARM and AMD.
Add CI step to verify installation by the universal pkg installer.

Are these changes tested?

Tested in CI.
Manually tested the universal .pkg installer on M5 and Intel Mac machines.

Are there any user-facing changes?

No.

Developers can use the universal macOS .pkg installer titled flight-sql-odbc-pkg-installer-universal from the CI.

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GitHub Issue: [C++][FlightRPC][ODBC] Universal macOS installer #51614

* use lipo to merge odbc installer * Add check for archs to have both builds * Add macOS installer check

alinaliBQ · 2026-10-05T20:21:35Z

Hi @kou @lidavidm @amoeba this PR is ready for review. The ODBC CIs passed in the fork repo so I think a re-run will likely fix the issue.

amoeba · 2026-10-07T18:01:56Z

Thanks @alinaliBQ, I'll review this week.

xborder

A recent mailing list discussion proposed dropping macos intel support. Does it make sense to create an installer for Intel?

xborder · 2026-10-09T10:31:29Z

+          lipo -create "${dylib_path}" amd64-dylib/libarrow_flight_sql_odbc.dylib \
+            -output "${dylib_path}"


codex pointed me to an issue here:

lipo replaces the unversioned symlink, leaving the versioned dylib ARM-only. Intel clients linking against its versioned install name then fail with “incompatible architecture.” The verification should check the versioned target too.

Yes good find. The realpath should be changed instead of symlink. I have pushed the changes for your comment and will comment once I test the produced artifact locally.

@xborder I tested the new installer on my M5 and the ODBC works locally. Now the installed directory looks like:

-rw-r--r-- 1 admin staff 101M Oct 9 14:38:50 2026 libarrow_flight_sql_odbc.2600.0.0.dylib lrwxr-xr-x 1 admin staff 39B Oct 9 14:43:22 2026 libarrow_flight_sql_odbc.2600.dylib -> libarrow_flight_sql_odbc.2600.0.0.dylib lrwxr-xr-x 1 admin staff 35B Oct 9 14:43:22 2026 libarrow_flight_sql_odbc.dylib -> libarrow_flight_sql_odbc.2600.dylib

alinaliBQ · 2026-10-09T19:27:49Z

A recent mailing list discussion proposed dropping macos intel support. Does it make sense to create an installer for Intel?

Thanks for raising this @xborder, I think if we could make the release for Intel installer before the Intel support is officially dropped, users could at least have 1 version that they can use.
And when Intel support is officially dropped, the workflow that creates Intel installer can be removed.

- Change CI to modify the real path DYLIB file, instead of the symlink - Check all symlinks and real path for installation correctness

amoeba

Hey @alinaliBQ thanks for this. I left a few comments, overall this looks great.

amoeba · 2026-10-10T00:09:35Z

+    needs: odbc-macos
+    if: needs.check-enabled.outputs.is_enabled == 'true'
+    name: ODBC universal macOS installer
+    runs-on: macos-14


Do we have a reason to use such an old macOS runner?

amoeba · 2026-10-10T00:09:57Z

+  odbc-macos-universal:
+    needs: odbc-macos
+    if: needs.check-enabled.outputs.is_enabled == 'true'
+    name: ODBC universal macOS installer


Suggested change

name: ODBC universal macOS installer

name: Create ODBC universal macOS installer

amoeba · 2026-10-10T00:13:19Z

          name: flight-sql-odbc-pkg-installer-${{ matrix.architecture }}
          path: build/cpp/ArrowFlightSQLODBC-*.pkg
          if-no-files-found: error
+      - name: Upload Intel ODBC dylib to the job


Just for consistency

Suggested change

- name: Upload Intel ODBC dylib to the job

- name: Upload AMD64 ODBC dylib to the job

amoeba · 2026-10-10T00:15:15Z

+          - architecture: AMD64
+            macos-version: "15-intel"
+          - architecture: ARM64
+            macos-version: "14"


Why this version not newer?

amoeba · 2026-10-10T00:15:19Z

+      matrix:
+        include:
+          - architecture: AMD64
+            macos-version: "15-intel"


Why this version not newer?

amoeba · 2026-10-10T01:14:56Z

+          for lib in "${lib_dir}"/libarrow_flight_sql_odbc*.dylib; do
+            dylib_archs="$(lipo -archs "${lib}")"
+            echo "${lib}: ${dylib_archs}"
+            for arch in arm64 x86_64; do
+              if ! grep -qw "${arch}" <<< "${dylib_archs}"; then
+                echo "${lib} is missing '${arch}' (got: ${dylib_archs})"
+                exit 1
+              fi
+            done
+          done


Can this be simplified? A comment wouldn't be a bad call either.

Suggested change

for lib in "${lib_dir}"/libarrow_flight_sql_odbc*.dylib; do

dylib_archs="$(lipo -archs "${lib}")"

echo "${lib}: ${dylib_archs}"

for arch in arm64 x86_64; do

if ! grep -qw "${arch}" <<< "${dylib_archs}"; then

echo "${lib} is missing '${arch}' (got: ${dylib_archs})"

exit 1

fi

done

done

for lib in "${lib_dir}"/libarrow_flight_sql_odbc*.dylib; do

echo "Checking ${lib}"

lipo -verify_arch arm64 x86_64 "${lib}"

done

amoeba · 2026-10-10T01:15:52Z

+          for lib in /Library/ODBC/arrow-odbc/lib/libarrow_flight_sql_odbc*.dylib; do
+            archs="$(lipo -archs "${lib}")"
+            echo "${lib}: ${archs}"
+            if ! grep -qw "${local_arch}" <<< "${archs}"; then
+              echo "${lib} does not support local architecture '${local_arch}' (got: ${archs})"
+              exit 1
+            fi
+          done


Testing that the .pkg installs on both platforms is good, the remainder of the check is basically re-asserting what we already asserted in the previous step. At the least we could simplify this similar to my comment above (just check that the dylib supports both arches).

amoeba · 2026-10-10T01:34:58Z

+
+  odbc-macos-universal-verify:
+    needs: odbc-macos-universal
+    if: needs.check-enabled.outputs.is_enabled == 'true'


Can we remove this? My agent review caught it. Apparently GitHub documents the needs context is only including outputs from jobs in the needs directive but apparently what you've done here works even if it's not documented. I worry maybe it would change at some point.

Can both these jobs just depend on odbc-macos and get us the same effect?

Universal macOS PKG Installer

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* use lipo to merge odbc installer * Add check for archs to have both builds * Add macOS installer check

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- Change CI to modify the real path DYLIB file, instead of the symlink - Check all symlinks and real path for installation correctness

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		lipo -create "${dylib_path}" amd64-dylib/libarrow_flight_sql_odbc.dylib \
		-output "${dylib_path}"

	name: ODBC universal macOS installer
	name: Create ODBC universal macOS installer

	- name: Upload Intel ODBC dylib to the job
	- name: Upload AMD64 ODBC dylib to the job

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