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

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.0
• Fix Version/s: 4.0.0
• Component/s: Documentation
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/27097
• Assignee: Ian Cook
• Reporter: Ben Kietzman
• Created: 08/Jan/21 18:51
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 08:18
• Resolved: 08/Apr/21 00:59

Description

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

Issue Links

• is related to: ARROW-11336 [C++][Doc] Improve Developing on Windows docs