Ok, thanks! I'm setting up a repo with an example here, using pybind11: https://github.com/vaexio/vaex-arrow-ext
and I'll just try all possible combinations and report back. cheers, Maarten Breddels Software engineer / consultant / data scientist Python / C++ / Javascript / Jupyter www.maartenbreddels.com / vaex.io maartenbredd...@gmail.com +31 6 2464 0838 <+31+6+24640838> [image: Twitter] <https://twitter.com/maartenbreddels>[image: Github] <https://github.com/maartenbreddels>[image: LinkedIn] <https://linkedin.com/in/maartenbreddels>[image: Skype] Op do 2 jul. 2020 om 14:32 schreef Joris Van den Bossche < jorisvandenboss...@gmail.com>: > Also no concrete answer, but one such example is turbodbc, I think. > But it seems they only have conda binary packages, and don't > distribute wheels .. > (https://turbodbc.readthedocs.io/en/latest/pages/getting_started.html), > so not that relevant as comparison (they also need to build against an > odbc driver in addition to arrow). > But maybe Uwe has some more experience in this regard (and with > attempts building wheels for turbodbc, eg > https://github.com/blue-yonder/turbodbc/pull/108). > > Joris > > On Thu, 2 Jul 2020 at 11:05, Antoine Pitrou <anto...@python.org> wrote: > > > > > > Hi Maarten, > > > > Le 02/07/2020 à 10:53, Maarten Breddels a écrit : > > > > > > Also, I see pyarrow distributes manylinux1/2010/2014 wheels. Would a > vaex > > > extension distributed as a 2010 wheel, and build with the pyarrow 2010 > > > wheel, work in an environment where someone installed a pyarrow 2014 > > > wheel, or build from source, or installed from conda-forge? > > > > I have no idea about the concrete answer, but it probably depends > > whether the libstdc++ ABI changed between those two versions. I'm > > afraid you'll have to experiment yourself. > > > > (if you want to eschew C++ ABI issues, you may use the C Data Interface: > > https://arrow.apache.org/docs/format/CDataInterface.html > > though of course you won't have access to all the useful helpers in the > > Arrow C++ library) > > > > Regards > > > > Antoine. > > > > >