[ARROW-17891] [Docs][Python] Update and sync Win section of the developers/python page

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 10.0.0
• Component/s: Documentation, Python
• Labels: pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/33104
• Assignee: Alenka Frim
• Reporter: Alenka Frim
• Created: 29/Sep/22 11:49
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 11:56
• Resolved: 19/Oct/22 07:58

Description

Some of the things that are missing/outdated:

• ARROW_HOME should be same as in Linux&MacOs section (only dist)
• setting of the PATH variable is not needed as Python doesn't use it anymore in the dll search path (3.8+)
• use Python 3.10
• it seems that invoking cmake in Win is case sensitive as the following

  cmake --build . --target INSTALL --config Release 

  didn't work for me and this did:

  cmake --build . --target install --config Release 

  I see the same on AppVeyor. 

I needed to set ARROW_STATIC=OFF to make the Arrow C++ build successful and I see the same in the AppVeyor build. Not sure why this is needed, but it should also be added in the docs. 

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #14350