[ARROW-4123] [C++] Improve linting workflow and documentation for Windows-based developers

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.13.0
• Component/s: C++, Developer Tools
• Labels: pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/20712
• Assignee: Ben Kietzman
• Reporter: Wes McKinney
• Created: 27/Dec/18 16:20
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:31
• Resolved: 20/Jan/19 16:22

Description

It is challenging to run the clang-format and cpplint checks on Windows out of the box, and it is not documented how to do so. I found that neither the format nor lint targets work correctly when building with Visual Studio 2015. We could use Docker, of course, but it would be nice to be able to run these tools natively on Windows

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #3374