On 09.11.2011 13:43, Jürgen Schmidt wrote:
On 11/5/11 1:30 PM, Mathias Bauer wrote:
Am 01.11.2011 14:15, schrieb Jürgen Schmidt:
Hi,
for all unix builds it is possible to use a pre-built unowinreg.dll that
is used in the SDK for Java client applications.
Background:
This dll contains some glue code that helps to find a default office
installation on windows. This is used to bootstrap an UNO environment
and establish a remote connection to an existing or new office instance
from the Java client application that triggers this code.
If is possible to cross compile this dll with mingw in some way but not
really necessary. It was always possible to download a pre-built version
and include it in the SDK on all plattforms expecting Windows where it
is built always.
I would suggest that we store this pre-built dll somewhere to ensure
that this mechanism can be used or will work in the future as well.
The URL to download the pre-built version is
http://tools.openoffice.org/unowinreg_prebuild/680/unowinreg.dll
The code is part of the odk module and is quite simple. Means it can be
always checked what's in the dll. We can apply a md5 checksum to ensure
that no manipulated dll is downloaded.
Any ideas where we can store this dll in the future?
In the build the unowinreg.dll is expected to be in external/unowinreg.
Usually the developer needs to copy it there. We could just check it in
there in case we wanted to stick with the binary.
i think it is not allowed to check in binaries in the source tree, at
least pre-built ones. I would be happy with this solution because it was
the solution we had at the beginning ;-)
IIRC the reason why we gave that up wasn't legal or technical, it was
just the religious belief of a single contributor that everything must
be built from source.
While I agree with that "belief" on a general level, I also think that
allowing exceptions make sense when the effort to follow it becomes too
high.
As we already agreed on possible keeping MPL binaries in our svn, why
shouldn't we keep a binary that was built from our own source, but just
on a different OS?
Regards,
Mathias
