Andrew Ruthven wrote: > Hi Mathias, > > On Fri, 2007-06-01 at 19:36 +0200, Mathias Bauer wrote: >> building OOo on Windows is not straightforward but a build system can be >> set up in a few hours. And at least instructions for setting it up are >> available for free. In case you find problems you can get help on this >> mailing list ([email protected]) or in an IRC channel. It's free also >> but we wouldn't complain if we got some contributions in return. ;-) > > Unfortunately I think that "a few hours" is some what of an > understatement. At least, when setting up a working environment under a > VMware instance it is. Starting from scratch it probably took me the > better part of two weeks (elpased) to setup my build environment. > Admittedly, that included tracking down the software (including buying > MS Visual Studio .Net 2003 second hand).
I can provide you with a documentation that should help you downloading and installing everything you need in 2-4 hours (broadband connection required ;-)). > The insturctions I followed are here: > http://tools.openoffice.org/dev_docs/build_windows_tcsh.html > Are these the instructions you're refering too? I found a couple of > bits missing from them. I'll send through some minor corrections > sometime soon. They are outdated and partially incorrect. I'm going to publish my new documentation soon. Feedback will be appreciated. Please give me some more days as I'm currently doing the proof reading. I will announce it on GullFOSS and on this list. Ciao, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". I use it for the OOo lists and only rarely read other mails sent to it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
