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Dependency List

Following is the list of libraries and their minimum version that Velox requires. Some of these libraries can be installed via a platform's package manager (eg. brew on MacOS). The versions of certain libraries is the default provided by the platform's package manager. Some libraries can be bundled by Velox. See details on bundling below.

Library Name Minimum Version Bundled?
ninja default No
ccache default No
icu4c default Yes
gflags default Yes
glog default Yes
gtest (testing) default Yes
libevent default No
libsodium default No
lz4 default No
snappy default No
lzo default No
xz default No
zstd default No
openssl default No
protobuf 21 (exact) Yes
boost 1.77.0 Yes
flex 2.5.13 No
bison 3.0.4 No
cmake 3.28 No
double-conversion 3.1.5 No
xsimd 10.0.0 Yes
re2 2021-04-01 Yes
fmt 10.1.1 Yes
simdjson 3.9.3 Yes
folly v2024.04.01.00 Yes
fizz v2024.04.01.00 No
wangle v2024.04.01.00 No
mvfst v2024.04.01.00 No
fbthrift v2024.04.01.00 No
libstemmer 2.2.0 Yes
DuckDB (testing) 0.8.1 Yes
cpr (testing) 1.10.15 Yes

Bundled Dependency Management

This module provides a dependency management system that allows us to automatically fetch and build dependencies from source if needed.

By default, the system will use dependencies installed on the host and fallback to building from source. This behaviour can be changed by setting environment variables:

  • VELOX_DEPENDENCY_SOURCE=AUTO|BUNDLED|SYSTEM for all dependencies or
  • <package>_SOURCE=AUTO|BUNDLED|SYSTEM for each dependency individually "package" has to use the same spelling as used in CMakelists.txt.

Find Modules

These modules override the find-modules provided by cmake and prevent system versions of the dependencies to be found and allow sub-projects to use the existing targets. (If a dependency uses variables instead of targets setting these or patching the dependency might be necessary).

They are in subfolders and not the root CMake folder, so they can selectively be added to the module path when needed: list(PREPEND CMAKE_MODULE_PATH ${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_DIR}/icu)

Patches

Some dependencies require us to patch them to make them work seamlessly with velox. If a dependency is updated the patche(s) used for it need to be checked for necessary changes. The easiest way to do this, is to check the cmake log for the patch step of the dependency, it will contain a line from git with the notice patch does not apply and the build will most likely fail.

There are two common reasons to patch a dependency:

  • *-no-export.patch this disables install/export of packages for dependencies that do not have a CMake flag to disable it (unlike e.g. protobuf). This is necessary if the dependency uses other dependencies that do not export their targets, as this will cause an error when the consuming dependency tries to install itself.
  • *-config.patch removes include() of generated cmake files that cause a cmake error when the config is used by another dependency in the same project.

Ideally all patches should be upstream when possible and removed once merged.

Adding new dependencies

  • Copy template.cmake and rename it to the name used in find_package but all lower-case.
  • Switch find_package vs set_source('package') resolve_dependency('package' 'optional args for find_package') in CMakeLists.txt
  • Update the template with the correct package name and download url/repo etc., set any necessary package options
  • Try to build and make necessary changes
    • Repeat until success :D (Feel free to raise and issue for review & support)

Specify a custom url/file path for an offline build

Set environment variables VELOX_<PACKAGE>_URL to specify a custom dependency url or local tar file path, an optional sha256 checksum can be provided as VELOX_<PACKAGE>_SHA256.