Hi Ilmari Lauhakangas, > Someone like Cloph might be the best person to answer this, but > apparently a native Windows version of pkgconf is needed in this case. In the Windows hard way documentation, I have added the download, look https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/BuildingOnWindows
> I assume this is because we now ship Meson as an external, see > external/meson Okay, I wanted to ask why it's not done this way, because that's actually the most practical way to do it, so that's that. I see in external is meson 1.8.0, which should actually be removed from LODE. Juergen ________________________________________ Von: LibreOffice <libreoffice-boun...@lists.freedesktop.org> im Auftrag von Ilmari Lauhakangas <ilmari.lauhakan...@libreoffice.org> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 2. Juli 2025 12:19 An: libreoffice@lists.freedesktop.org Betreff: Re: AW: Trouble with new lo-build On 7/1/25 13:12, Juergen Funk wrote: > Hi Ilmari Lauhakangas, > > Thanks for the hint, my next question is, > why the pkgconf of cygwin doesn't work (compiler error) even though it's the > same version number, I've added in the LibreOffice build documentation for > the hard way that. Someone like Cloph might be the best person to answer this, but apparently a native Windows version of pkgconf is needed in this case. > But I did not install the meson 1.7.2, but it compile/link, this confuses me, > why install LODE, this library although it goes without, is it necessary for > the hard way docu? I assume this is because we now ship Meson as an external, see external/meson Ilmari
