Having Windows support is definitely very important, since in Python and R at least there are a lot of Windows users.
I personally am not going to be able to work on this in the short term, but if anyone would like to be compensated for their time to work on this, please let me know. Thanks On Sun, Nov 11, 2018 at 9:24 PM Ravindra Pindikura <ravin...@dremio.com> wrote: > > Hi all, > > Would anyone be interested in working on adding windows support for gandiva ? > > My knowledge of windows is severely limited - but the potential issues could > be : > > - interaction with the llvm APIs (should work, but there may be surprises if > some of them aren’t available on windows) > - the libc/libm APIs that we are using to compile into IR (in precompiled > folder). > - build/deploy > > Having windows support will ensure that we can validate our decisions before > adding new features eg. Decimal support for gandiva. And, I think this is the > one OS that arrow supports but gandiva doesn’t. > > Thanks & regards, > Ravindra.
