https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46614
Bug #: 46614
Summary: mingw-w64 compiler required, to compile a *windows*
dll, for the ARM port of libreoffice!
Classification: Unclassified
Product: LibreOffice
Version: unspecified
Platform: Other
OS/Version: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: medium
Component: Libreoffice
AssignedTo: [email protected]
ReportedBy: [email protected]
i'm sorry, i find this to be absolutely hilarious.
the debian team are presently in the process of compiling libreoffice, for ARM.
apparently, what is needed is the x86 "Minimalist GNU *WINDOWS*, 64-bit"
cross-compiler, compiled up on the ARM architecture, to create x86 code that
will *not* even run on the ARM architecture, in a futile attempt to have an
ARM-compiled java runtime load that x86-compiled windows DLL via a c-based
interface in order to access a *WINDOWS* registry API which doesn't even exist
on a GNU/Linux system!
i mean... you know, some of the programming things that i've done people simply
don't believe me when i tell them, so i've stopped telling them. but if you
asked me to make up a paragraph like the above, not only could i not do it
because i wouldn't possibly believe it myself but also i would be laughing so
hard i couldn't type at the keyboard.
the things that are wrong with that paragraph... there are so many i don't know
where to begin. i mean... people _have_ tried porting Wine to the ARM
architecture: one person actually managed to get ARM-based proprietary WINCE
applications to correctly execute. but those are *ARM* binaries.
can someone please therefore take a reaaall good look at this insanity, and
perhaps add some options to libreoffice which make it possible to simply cut it
out - entirely?
l.
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