Hello;
>________________________________ > From: Herbert Duerr > > >On 28.08.2012 11:28, Andre Fischer wrote: >> On 28.08.2012 10:51, Ian Harvey wrote: >>> I have been experimenting with building OpenOffice (trunk) with Visual >>> Studio 2010. I have made some progress, but clearly more work remains. >>> Is there an appropriate place to document/share/seek advice on progress >>> to date within the projects' infrastructure? Perhaps an issue in >>> Bugzilla? >> >> Very cool. >> >> An issue in Bugzilla would be good for tracking the progress. For >> questions (and hopefully answers) ooo-dev is the right place. Maybe a >> wiki page for documentation. > >+1 > >>> Navigating the build system has been challenging. Pointers to >>> information to highlight how the build system works (so that any changes >>> to accomodate VS2010 I make don't work contrary to the intent of its >>> designers) would be appreciated. >> >> I doubt that there is up-to-date information written down in the wiki. > >http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Building_Guide/Building_on_Windows >is always a good start to get acquainted with the current status quo. > >> But please ask questions here on ooo-dev. > >+1 > >>> The use of stlport by the Windows build causes some of the issues that I >>> have encountered, perhaps through ignorance on my part about how stlport >>> should be used. Is the intention to continue using stlport, or should I >>> investigate excising stlport from a hypothetical VS2010 build? >> >> We would like to drop stlport but I think we are not there yet. I think >> Herbert can say more about that. > >Dropping stlport would have a lot of benefits, e.g. we could use the >system provided libraries for e.g. ICU or graphite. The next major >release AOO 4.0 would be a great opportunity for doing this as C++ based >extensions would become incompatible. > STLPort doesn't build in clang so this is also a requirement for updating the MacOSX port. I would think we can start by disabling stlport (--without-stlport) by default. BTW, I am considering an update to boost: I am using system boost 1.48 by default for AOO. Pedro.
