I'm just curious to know how to retrieve the 8.3 file names. For my case, Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0, it doesn't show anything. Thus I wonder why? Is this some sort of Windows 8 feature?
On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 9:53 PM, Andre Fischer <awf....@gmail.com> wrote: > On 10.03.2014 14:42, LOH KOK HOE wrote: > >> This is interesting. On Windows 8, when I issue the command > dir /x in >> command prompt to retrieve Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0's unique name, it >> shows nothing. Why this could happened? How you guys workaround on this >> issue? >> > > I have not made the transition from Windows7 to Windows 8, so I can not > comment. Internally we use the cygpath command to convert from long to 8.3 > file names. If OpenOffice still builds on Windows 8 then this technique > still works and Windows 8 can still interpret 8.3 file names. > > -Andre > > > >> >> On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 6:31 PM, Andre Fischer <awf....@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On 10.03.2014 10:42, John O'Sullivan wrote: >>> >>> I copied my Visual Studio Express 2008 into a short dir tree with no >>>> spaces >>>> in the dir names to work around this issue. I took the Common7 and VC >>>> subdirs from C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0 into >>>> another dir, and all worked smoothly. >>>> >>>> The long filenames have only to be understood by configure. They are >>> then >>> converted to 8.3 syntax, unreadable but without spaces. >>> Look into the winenv.set.sh and you won't see that many spaces in >>> directories. >>> >>> -Andre >>> >>> >>> >>> Cheers >>>> John >>>> >>>> >>>> On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 8:41 AM, Andre Fischer <awf....@gmail.com> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>> On 09.03.2014 10:25, LOH KOK HOE wrote: >>>> >>>>> Dear all, >>>>> >>>>>> Has anyone successfully build OpenOffice using VS2012 Express? I'm >>>>>> currently experiencing some error while following command is issue: >>>>>> >>>>>> ./configure --with-dmake-url= >>>>>> https://dmake.apache-extras.org.codespot.com/files/dmake- >>>>>> 4.12.2.tar.bz2--with-cl-home=/cygdrive/c/"Program >>>>>> Files (x86)"/"Microsoft Visual Studio >>>>>> 11.0"/VC >>>>>> >>>>>> Maybe this is a problem with the path syntax and quoting. Can you >>>>>> try >>>>>> >>>>> a >>>>> different quoting for the --with-cl-home option? I use something like >>>>> >>>>> ---with-cl-home="/cygdrive/c/Progrram Files (x86)/Microsoft >>>>> Visual >>>>> Studio..." >>>>> >>>>> -Andre >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> And I have this error: >>>>> >>>>>> checking for mspdb80.dll... no >>>>>> checking for mspdb71.dll... no >>>>>> checking the Microsoft C/C++ Compiler... found >>>>>> (/cygdrive/c/PROGRA~2/Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0/VC/bin/cl.exe) >>>>>> checking the Version of Microsoft C/C++ Compiler... found Compiler >>>>>> version >>>>>> in "./configure: line 8127: /cygdrive/c/PROGRA~2/Microsoft: is a >>>>>> directory" >>>>>> ./configure: line 8138: test: : integer expression expected >>>>>> configure: error: Compiler too old. Use Microsoft C/C++ .NET 2008. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------ >>>>>> --------- >>>>>> >>>>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org >>>>> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org >>> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org >>> >>> >>> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > >
