Hi All, I'd like to contribute to OpenOffice, and the first step of that is to be able to build OpenOffice from source. I'd like to start with the source for the latest stable branch.
I've been browsing all over OpenOffice.org, but have not yet found anything resembling a step by step guide for building OO. The related documents I have found, scare me :) My development machine is Vista x64 Ultimate. I have virtual machines for Ubuntu Gutsy and XP Pro, but wish to avoid using them if possible. I have Visual Studio 03, 05, and 08 professional or better. I understand MSVC is the compiler used on windows for OO. I would like to know what tools/software and sources/libs I'm going to need, and how to go about building OpenOffice. Please don't try to answer all of that by yourself, just give me a link, a tip, or a little piece of what I need to know. If everyone does that, I'll soon have the answer. Hopefully out of these discussions we can create a wiki document that will prevent future windows devs from posting questions like this :) Thanks, -Dan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
