On 06.09.2011 14:47, Rob Weir wrote: > 4) apt-get build-dep openoffice.org was insufficient. I received > configure errors after that and had to install many packages in > addition
well, it's a start :) > 5) I'm not at that machine right now to look up the details, but I had > to copy down what appeared to be a mingw-compiled file from the > website and put it into the externals directory. I didn't see that > called out in the instructions that's one way of doing it; the other is to install a MinGW cross compiler, which is nowadays available for all major Linux distros. e.g. on Fedora 'yum install mingw32-gcc-c++' but i think you have to tell configure about it explicitly: ./configure --with-mingwin=i686-pc-mingw32-g++
