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Raúl Cumplido 4ecdfe046e GH-54902: [C++] Move GCS and google-cloud-cpp to its own libarrow_gcs.so (#54905)
### Rationale for this change

Trying to reduce the size of libarrow.so and remove google-cloud-cpp SDK on some builds. Allow for users to plug and play based on requirements and divide our functionality into cleaner modules.

### What changes are included in this PR?

Unconditionally build GCS and the google-cloud-cpp SDK into a different module libarrow_gcs.so outside of libarrow.so.
Update bindings to link against the new libarrow_gcs.so library.
Update the Linux Package jobs to have the new module into a different package.

### Are these changes tested?

Yes via CI

### Are there any user-facing changes?

Yes, users will need to either link against libarrow_s3.so or register using LoadFileSystemFactories

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* GitHub Issue: #54902

Authored-by: Raúl Cumplido <raulcd@apache.org>
Signed-off-by: Raúl Cumplido <raulcd@apache.org>
2026-10-27 10:16:21 +01:00
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