Eric Hoch wrote:
Hi Pinto,
Well organisation is a bit of a weak point for Mac OS X porting. We
(the European Mac Porter that have time and that I know) meet us
during Linuxtag (6/22-25/2005) in Karlsruhe and have a little talk
about Mac OS X Port and its future. So some news are to come by the
end of June
Too bad that I cannot be in Germany (Deutchland). This conference could
prove to be interesting and the meeting of the European Mac OS X port
team very interesting. I'm willing to do builds and testing of the
teams' and others efforts.
First you should try to get familiar with the build process of OOo
for X11 since this is the most current versions for both 1.1.x as
current stable and 680/1.9.xxx as Milestonebuilds on the way to 2.0
later that year - propably July/August.
I've been doing that. I have, yet, to complete a successful build.
However, I've not given up.
Buildinstructions can be found here
<http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/build_680_X11.html> for current
680. I'm planing an update to them since some things changed with
the 10x+ milestones.
Here <http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/build_11_X11.html> you find
1.1.x build instructions.
Please take a look at the archives of this mailinglists. There are
some current issues when building OOo under Tiger. It's recommanded
to use gcc 3.3 for Tiger builds since nobody of the developers I
know so far has been able to build OOo 1.1.x or 680 using gcc 4.0.
So to keep up with the ongoing development heading to 2.0 we stick
with gcc 3.3 under Tiger and Panther for OOo 680 and later 2.0. But
gcc 4.0 isn't forgotten.
Correct. However, there is an open Task Issue to track efforts to use
gcc 4.0 vice gcc 4.0 and to track patches needed to build 1.1.4 on Tiger.
You should also do a search in Issuezilla to find current open Issues for Mac OS X builds.
You should also look at the closed issues, too. This will give you an
idea what was done in the past to work on the Mac OS X port. I found
patches for the 1.9.x (2.0) branch that I took back into the 1.1.4
branch to see if they solve my build problem.
Feel free to ask. A dumb question is the one not asked.
Correct. There is no such thing as a "dumb" question.
Regards,
Eric Hoch
Thank you for your assistance and understanding.
James McKenzie
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