> - - - - - - - - - Áframsendur póstur - - - - - - - - - - > From: Mathias Bauer <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2010 17:18:08 +0100 > Subject: Re: [dev] Re: instsetoo_native: Assembly missing for Windows > install > On 05.12.2010 20:58, Kristján Bjarni Guðmundsson wrote: > > So does this mean that Windows XP support has been dropped from the build >> environment? How am I then supposed to build installations for Windows XP? >> Is it possible to get the source to your build environment, so that I can >> build Windows XP installations? Or at least get some information on what >> changes I have to make to build with vcredist_x86.exe? >> >> > No, Windows support hasn't been dropped - at least not intentionally. It > seems that whoever changed the build environment so that the redists are no > longer required, meant it well: it made it easier for developers to build > OOo as they don't need to download the redists and put them into the source > tree manually again and again. Instead of that, they install them once and > for good. But unfortunately he forgot to add a configure switch that allows > to include the redistributables. > > So I consider this a bug. I will see that we can fix it as soon as > possible. > > In the meantime you could try a hack: > > put your redistributable into "solver/bin" > set the environment variable "WITH_VC_REDIST" to "TRUE" > > and see if it works. > > Regards, > Mathias >
Ok thanks for the help, I will try this hack out and see if it works. I already reported this as a bug for the build: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=114372 But it got rejected as invalid. Regards, Kristjan
