diff --git a/ci/scripts/PKGBUILD b/ci/scripts/PKGBUILD
index f746c4a81a5..3a650668133 100644
--- a/ci/scripts/PKGBUILD
+++ b/ci/scripts/PKGBUILD
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ depends=("${MINGW_PACKAGE_PREFIX}-aws-sdk-cpp"
 makedepends=("${MINGW_PACKAGE_PREFIX}-ccache"
              "${MINGW_PACKAGE_PREFIX}-cmake"
              "${MINGW_PACKAGE_PREFIX}-gcc")
-options=("staticlibs" "strip" "!buildflags")
+options=("staticlibs" "!strip" "!buildflags")
 
 # For installing from a local checkout, set source_dir to . and don't include
 # a "source" param below
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ build() {
     -DARROW_JEMALLOC=OFF \
     -DARROW_JSON=ON \
     -DARROW_LZ4_USE_SHARED=OFF \
-    -DARROW_MIMALLOC=ON \
+    -DARROW_MIMALLOC=OFF \
     -DARROW_PACKAGE_PREFIX="${MINGW_PREFIX}" \
     -DARROW_PARQUET=ON \
     -DARROW_S3="${ARROW_S3}" \
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ build() {
     -DARROW_WITH_ZSTD=ON \
     -DARROW_ZSTD_USE_SHARED=OFF \
     -DARROW_CXXFLAGS="${CPPFLAGS}" \
-    -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE="release" \
+    -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE="debug" \
     -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=${MINGW_PREFIX} \
     -DCMAKE_UNITY_BUILD=ON \
     -DCMAKE_VERBOSE_MAKEFILE=ON
diff --git a/cpp/cmake_modules/SetupCxxFlags.cmake b/cpp/cmake_modules/SetupCxxFlags.cmake
index aa8e5becab0..43bdd89ff32 100644
--- a/cpp/cmake_modules/SetupCxxFlags.cmake
+++ b/cpp/cmake_modules/SetupCxxFlags.cmake
@@ -227,7 +227,7 @@ if(NOT BUILD_WARNING_LEVEL)
   if("${CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE}" STREQUAL "RELEASE")
     set(BUILD_WARNING_LEVEL PRODUCTION)
   else()
-    set(BUILD_WARNING_LEVEL CHECKIN)
+    set(BUILD_WARNING_LEVEL PRODUCTION)
   endif()
 endif(NOT BUILD_WARNING_LEVEL)
 string(TOUPPER ${BUILD_WARNING_LEVEL} BUILD_WARNING_LEVEL)