Building the Airport Extension from Source

Step-by-step instructions for building the Airport extension from source, including dependencies, compilation, and testing.

Follow these instructions to build the Airport extension from source.

# Clone the Airport extension repository with submodules
# (includes duckdb and extension-ci-tools)
git clone --recursive git@github.com:Query-farm/duckdb-airport-extension

# Clone vcpkg for dependency management
# vcpkg handles all Airport dependencies and integrates seamlessly with DuckDB
git clone https://github.com/Microsoft/vcpkg.git

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

# Set the vcpkg toolchain path for the build system
export VCPKG_TOOLCHAIN_PATH=`pwd`/vcpkg/scripts/buildsystems/vcpkg.cmake

# Build the extension
# If you have Ninja installed, use it for faster builds:
GEN=ninja make

# Otherwise, use standard make:
make

Note

Building the extension will compile all dependencies including protobuf, grpc, arrow, and others. Build time varies depending on system resources but typically takes 15-45 minutes on modern hardware.

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;