Hi Martin,
On 21.09.2011 12:07, Martin Hollmichel wrote:
Hi,
Am 20.09.2011 12:26, schrieb Oliver-Rainer Wittmann:
Hi,
[...]
I will start working on a consolidation of the Windows Build software
requirements as given on
http://ooo-wiki.apache.org/wiki/Documentation/Building_Guide/Building_on_Windows:
- get rid of dependence on unicows.dll
This will have some impact wrt system requirements ? Which Windows
version will be affected by this change ?
-- take over issue 88652
(https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=88652) from Mathias and
perform the given tasks.
As stated in issue 88652 by Mathias, unicows.dll is no longer needed as
the support for win9x has been dropped.
Here, I am trusting Mathias. Is this information correct?
- get rid of dependence on instmsiw.exe and instmsia.exe
also this will iirc have some dependencies wrt system requirements, what
do you consider as minimum Windows baseline ? I would be fine with a XP
System SP2,
I would alse be fine with Windows XP SP2 as the minimum Windows
operating system as it is already stated in the building guide for
Windows -
http://ooo-wiki.apache.org/wiki/Documentation/Building_Guide/Building_on_Windows
-- I did not find any reference to these files in the sources.
They come from the installer SDK,
As I can see on my system (Windows 7) the files instmsiw.exe and
instmsia.exe are no longer included in "Microsoft Visual C++ 2008
Express" or "Windows SDK for Windows Server 2008"
I also did not see that these files are included in an OOo installation
set, if they are copied into ../external/msi/.
Searching for information about the Microsoft Windows Installer - namely
these executables - results that
- the Microsoft Windows Installer is part of the Windows operating
system since versions Windows 2000 and Windows ME.
- for previous Windows versions (95, 98, 98 2nd Edition) the Microsoft
Windows Installer has be manually installed. As far as I know these
Windows version are no longer supported by OOo. Is this correct?
Thus, I concluded that these files are no longer needed.
Does anyone has further information?
Thanks and best regards,
Oliver
greetings,
Martin
