I hope this email finds you well and that this is the proper address for my question. First off, let me say I am not a programmer by training and have very little experience in C++. However, it is the best option for what I'm doing, which is ultimately writing data in Parquet format. I can save my data as CSV right now no problem, but I cannot get even the simplest example code for arrow and/or parquet to work for me. And unfortunately, I have no idea what I'm doing when it comes to troubleshooting a manual build of libraries in C++. I've tried asking Stack Overflow and Reddit, but so far, I haven't gotten any responses. I've read as much as I could find on those sites and the general internet at large, but I still can't figure out how to properly access Apache libraries in my own C++ project.
I'd be happy to go through everything I've done and the issues I am running into, but I was wondering first if there was any location online that walks completely through the set up of the Apache Arrow and Apache Parquet libraries (ideally in Windows 10, but I can make an Ubuntu partition if necessary) to see if there is something I missed when I did it myself? Even just a nudge in the right direction would be appreciated. Thank you for taking the time to read my email and awesome job on this technology. -David --
