[ARROW-18341] [Doc][Python] Update note about bundling Arrow C++ on Windows

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 11.0.0
• Component/s: Documentation, Python
• Labels: pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/33510
• Assignee: Alenka Frim
• Reporter: Alenka Frim
• Created: 16/Nov/22 12:54
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 11:59
• Resolved: 22/Nov/22 07:49

Description

There is a note on the python development page under Widnows section about bundling the Arrow C++ libraries with Python extensions:

https://arrow.apache.org/docs/dev/developers/python.html#building-on-windows

This note can be revised:

• if you are using conda, the fact that Arrow C++ libs are not bundled is fine since conda will ensure those libs are found.
• If you are not using conda, you have to ensure those libs can be found: either by updating PATH (every time before importing pyarrow), or either by bundling them (... using the PYARROW_BUNDLE_ARROW_CPP env variable instead of --bundle-arrow-cpp). With the caveat those won't be automatically updated when rebuilding the arrow-cpp libs then.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #14660