On 11/25/09 15:47, Stephan Bergmann wrote:
On 11/25/09 15:28, Daniel B. wrote:
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Stephan Bergmann
<stephan.bergm...@sun.com> wrote:
On 11/12/09 14:04, Daniel B. wrote:
I'm trying to build OOo on Windows using the instructions from the
Building Guide in the wiki
(http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Building_Guide).
Everything works fine so far, but I noticed that the installation sets
that my build produces are missing the redist-directory that should
contain the MS Visual C++ redistributable package (vcredist_x86.exe).
Consequently when I install my build on a system that doesn't already
have msvcp90.dll and msvcr90.dll installed OOo won't work. Just
creating the redist-directory inside the installation set and copying
the vcredist_x86.exe file into it doesn't work. My installer doesn't
trigger the installation of the Visual C++ redistributables.
So, my question is how do I build an installation set which contains
the redist-directory with the vcredist_x86.exe file, so that the OOo
installation will install the necessary libraries?
While searching for an answer I found out that there's an environment
variable WITH_VC_REDIST which you can set to TRUE and then the build
seems to create the redist directory and tries to copy the
vcredist_x86.exe from somewhere but I don't know where the build
process expects the necessary files. Can anyone help me out?
My understanding is that in general OOo installation sets on Windows
bring
with them the MSVC90 CRT files as .msm files
(scp2/source/ooo/mergemodules_ooo.scp) and that the additional
vcredist_x86.exe is only actually used during update installation on
Vista,
to work around some specific problem (scp2/source/ooo/vc_redist.scp).
Thank you for your reply, Stephan! Looks like I misunderstood the
purpose of the vcredist_x86.exe, then.
Anyway, the problem remains. The installation set I build still
doesn't install the files msvcp90.dll and msvcr90.dll, so that
OpenOffice.org won't run on a system which hasn't already installed
these files. The normal installer DOES install these files so it must
be some problem with my build but I have no idea what exactly went
wrong. I did copy the .msm files that are mentioned on
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Building_Guide/Building_on_Windows
to the external/msm90 folder but that's obviously not enough.
Can anyone point me in the right direction what the problem could be?
I vaguely remember that whether you are allowed to re-distribute those
files depends on the MS compiler version (Express vs. full), so there
might be some conditional section in our code base causing the stuff
not to be included in your build. Ingo (on cc) probably knows more.
-Stephan
Hello,
what means the "normal installer" does install these files?
In OOo 3.0, OOo 3.1 and OOo 3.2 the msvc runtime libraries are included
into the product using MS MergeModules (msm files). Additionally there
is a vcredist_x86.exe, but this is only required for Major Upgrades on
Windows Vista. Therefore this is probably not required by you.
Looking into the code in scp2/source/ooo/mergemodules_ooo.scp, you can
see that the Merge Modules are only included into the product, if
"#ifdef M1500" is true.
Oliver (on cc) probably knows more about M1500.
By the way. We want to remove the MergeModules for OOo 3.3, because they
are no longer supported by MS. They have problems to deliver patches for
this files in the MergeModules, because every application that includes
this MergeModules is responsible for delivering patches for this files.
So MS cannot deliver patches for their files, if other products include
them.
Therefore we are forced, to add all versions of vcredist into our
installation sets in the future. And we have to use them always, not
only for Upgrades on Windows Vista.
Ingo
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