Test automatic bindings to the C API for the arrow project.
The interfaces have been generated with the cfwrapper script from the gtk-fortran project.
To test the result we follow the examples in the getting started page of the arrow project and reproduce with the Fortran bindings the examples used there to demonstrate the basic usage.
The basic c++ example is provided in the cpp_example folder along with a Makefile. The Fortran equivalent is implemented in main.f90.
The project includes a development environment which includes all the dependencies. Using VSCode and Docker it should be as simple as opening the project in a development container with the remote development extension.
Without using the included docker container linking against the arrow libraries requires installing the libraries, instructions are available for different environments on the arrow installation page.
Run the example in main.f90 with fpm run
Run the cpp_example with:
cd cpp_example
make
../bin/arrow_data_structures_cpp