Building the Airport Extension for DuckDB

To build the Airport extension from source for DuckDB you can follow these instructions.

# This clones the git repository of the extension.
# duckdb and extension-ci-tools are submodules.
git clone --recursive git@github.com:Query-farm/duckdb-airport-extension

# Clone the vcpkg repo
#
#   vcpkg manages all of the dependencies of the airport extention and is
#   well integrated into DuckDB.
git clone https://github.com/Microsoft/vcpkg.git

# Bootstrap vcpkg
./vcpkg/bootstrap-vcpkg.sh

# Store the toolchain path for vcpkg, so it can be called
# by the makefiles.
export VCPKG_TOOLCHAIN_PATH=`pwd`/vcpkg/scripts/buildsystems/vcpkg.cmake

# If you have the ninja build tool installed,
# you can use it to speed up the build, otherwise
# just run make by itself.
GEN=ninja make

Building the extention will build all of its dependendenices, protobuf, grpc, arrow and others, this can take somewhat long time depending on the resources of the system being used to build the extension.

Alternative to building from source

If you just want to use the extension without building it from source you can install using this SQL command.

INSTALL airport from community;
LOAD airport;