[C++] MSVC build fails on googletest when using NMake

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I also cannot yet figure out how to use a 3rd-party gtest as installed by conda-forge, with the %GTEST_HOME% environment variable

cc [~Max Risuhin]

Reporter: Wes McKinney / @wesm
Assignee: Max Risuhin / @maxhora

Related issues:

• Arrow 0.3 release (blocks)

_{Note: This issue was originally created as ARROW-757. Please see the migration documentation for further details.}

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Wes McKinney / @wesm:
Resolved in PR e371ebd. Thanks!

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Max Risuhin / @maxhora:
Currently, there are following blocking issues with usage of gtest installed from conda-forge:

1. gtest-feedstock installs gtest conda-forge lib files into "Library\bin" directory, but normally it should copy them to "Library\lib" directory.
2. gtest-feedstock builds gtest libs with /MT (static windows run-time), but Arrow is built by cmake (by default) with /MD (dynamically linked windows run-time).

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Wes McKinney / @wesm:
Let's skip googletest for now, and focus on the other toolchain dependencies:

• flatbuffers
• gflags (see Windows support fixes conda-forge/gflags-feedstock#5)
• snappy
• zlib
• (optional) brotli

libsnappy is used in parquet-cpp at the moment, but I want to move the compression libraries to Arrow so we can implement compression here