Hi Matthias,
We consistently lose programming volunteers when we ask them to attempt
a build. That makes getting instructions that work, especially for
Windows, the commonest platform, absolutely essential.
On 2/15/2020 1:06 PM, Matthias Seidel wrote:
Hi Patricia,
Am 15.02.20 um 20:36 schrieb Patricia Shanahan:
I have learned enough about Git to attempt a new Windows build. I am
building on a Windows 10 system, using the 64-bit Cygwin, and keeping
detailed notes of any problems with the instructions.
1. I got very confused between what I should be getting from
https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Building_Guide_AOO#General_Build_Requirements
and what from
https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Building_Guide_AOO/Step_by_step#Build_with_Cygwin_64-bit
The "general" had a lot of conditionals.
I think it could be made easier to use if one could just start from
the step-by-step and have it link to common web pages for anything
that really is common.
+1
This one I am not going to attempt myself because changes could affect
other platforms that I am not using.
2. There is no /cygdrive/c/temp. /usr/tmp is a temporary directory.
/"(or any other temporary directory of your choice)"/
The fix is to change it to "/usr/tmp (or other temporary directory of
your choice)", though I am not sure why one would need an alternative to
/usr/tmp.
3. Command "lynx -source
rawgit.com/transcode-open/apt-cyg/master/apt-cyg > apt-cyg" failed
because I had not been told to install lynx.
I have never understood or used these instructions regarding lynx.
Let's get rid of them. The closer we can get to one set of instructions
that work the better. Cygwin's setup automatically installs
dependencies, and is the normal way of installing Cygwin packages. One
would need to use it to get lynx anyway.
Unclear how much can be omitted in this area if the required packages,
and their dependencies, have already been installed through the Cygwin
setup program, as will be the case if following the instructions. It
is really necessary to provide an alternative?
4. http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=3138 gets
an error page "We're sorry, this download is no longer available."
At this point, I am officially stuck.
As anyone else is, Microsoft has pulled that download long ago.
(As you may remember, we wrote about that and I sent you a Dropbox link
where you can download it from)
Yes, but I am modeling a new recruit trying to build AOO for the first
time, using the latest instructions, on a machine that has not
previously been used to build it. I really am using a computer I got
after the last time I built AOO, and I am being very careful to follow
the instructions as written, ignoring prior experience. My objective is
as much to test the build instructions and get them fixed as to do the
build.
Do we understand why AOO building still requires an obsolete MSVC? Any
way to fix it? This seems to me to be a particularly urgent build problem.
Perhaps the best we can do here for now is to say "If you get to this
point and do not already have Microsoft Windows SDK for Windows 7 and
.NET Framework 3.5. SP1, send mail to dev@openoffice.apache.org to get
your secret decoder ring."
Thanks,
Patricia
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