[Python] Support for pyarrow on Windows / MSVC

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After ARROW-687 is done, we should similarly ensure that pyarrow runs successfully on Windows. Parquet support must wait until parquet-cpp is supported on Windows, though

Reporter: Wes McKinney / @wesm
Assignee: Wes McKinney / @wesm

Related issues:

• Arrow 0.3 release (blocks)
• [C++] Portable alternative to PyDate_to_ms function (is related to)

_{Note: This issue was originally created as ARROW-734. Please see the migration documentation for further details.}

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Wes McKinney / @wesm:
Now that we have reasonably complete C++ support, we should definitely try to get pyarrow working (sans Parquet for the moment) in time for 0.3

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Wes McKinney / @wesm:
Compilation / build support in #553. Will need to make follow up JIRAs to fix the test failures

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Wes McKinney / @wesm:
Issue resolved by pull request 553
#553

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allen tom:
This is pull requests is falling to build on windows. _mm_popcnt_u64 not found

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Wes McKinney / @wesm:
See https://github.com/apache/arrow/blob/master/cpp/doc/Windows.md. If the Visual Studio environment is not started in 64-bit mode, you will get that error.