[jira] [Commented] (ARROW-11192) [Documentation] Describe opening Visual Studio so it inherits a working env

["Ian Cook (Jira)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Ian Cook commented on ARROW-11192:
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I believe the way to do this is to initialize Visual Studio by running the {{vcvarsall.bat}} or {{VsDevCmd.bat}} command, e.g. for VS 2019 Community:
{code:java}
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\Common7\Tools\VsDevCmd.bat" -arch=amd64
{code}
then activate the conda environment, then in the same command prompt, start the VS IDE by running the command
{code:java}
devenv.exe
{code}
possibly with [switches|https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/ide/reference/devenv-command-line-switches?view=vs-2019].

> [Documentation] Describe opening Visual Studio so it inherits a working env
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: ARROW-11192
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-11192
>             Project: Apache Arrow
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Documentation
>    Affects Versions: 2.0.0
>            Reporter: Ben Kietzman
>            Assignee: Ian Cook
>            Priority: Major
>             Fix For: 4.0.0
>
>
> [https://arrow.apache.org/docs/developers/cpp/windows.html#building-using-visual-studio-msvc-solution-files] describes setting up the conda development environment but if VS is opened normally then it will not inherit those env vars, conda will not be activated, etc. So building will fail. The documentation should help new developers go from zero to debugging in VS



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