Patricia,
I've been meaning to ping you about progress on building AOO on Windows.
As much as I don't want to go through the whole POSIX/Cygwin route and also
find a way to use Visual Studio Express 2008 on my Windows 10 system (which is
already dedicated to Visual Studio 2015 Community
My progress got stopped by a combination of Christmas preparations, work
towards an Apache River release, and extreme discouragement. Each time I
solved a problem, another one cropped up, and I was not confident in all
the decisions I had made along the way.
I expect to have more time for OO