Hi Francois, here's where I have gone to get started:
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Native_Build You'll need to install git to get the source, so don't worry about manually downloading files. Anyway, it's all explained in the link, http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Native_Build Hope this helps! All the best, Dave On 2011-01-27, at 10:54 AM, Francois Tigeot wrote: > Hi! > > Now that LibreOffice 3.3.0.4 has been released, I'd like to have a go > at building it from source. > > How does one install LibreOffice from the source tarballs ? Are there > some instructions somewhere ? > > There are 21 different files such as "libreoffice-artwork-3.3.0.4.tar.bz2" > Do they all need to be downloaded ? And then, what should I do ? > Should they be combined in a giant directory or processed separately ? > > I'm a little confused by the sheer number of files to download. Wouldn't > it be easier to just provide one giant archive, like it is done for the > different binary platforms ? > > Forgive me if this list is not the place to ask this sort of questions, > but the only installation instructions available on the web site are for > the binary packages and the user list wasn't too helpful either. > > -- > Francois Tigeot > _______________________________________________ > LibreOffice mailing list > LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice