[ARROW-5347] [C++] Building fails on Windows with gtest symbol issue

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Workaround
• Component/s: C++
• Labels: windows
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/21806
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Antoine Pitrou
• Created: 16/May/19 11:37
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:39
• Resolved: 20/Feb/21 03:40

Description

I get the following on my WIndows VM:

compute-test.cc.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "class testing::
internal::Mutex testing::internal::g_gmock_mutex" (?g_gmock_mutex@internal@testi
ng@@3VMutex@12@A)
release\arrow-compute-test.exe : fatal error LNK1120: 1 unresolved externals

It's probably caused by something like https://github.com/google/googletest/issues/292 except that our CMake code already seems to handle this issue, so I'm not sure what happens.

Here is my build script:

cmake -G "Ninja" -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug ^
    -DARROW_USE_CLCACHE=ON ^
    -DARROW_BOOST_USE_SHARED=OFF ^
    -DBOOST_ROOT=C:\boost_1_67_0 ^
    -DARROW_DEPENDENCY_SOURCE=BUNDLED ^
    -DARROW_PYTHON=OFF ^
    -DARROW_PLASMA=OFF ^
    -DARROW_BUILD_TESTS=ON ^
    ..
cmake --build . --config Debug

I'm using conda for dependencies.