Hello, I would like to contribute to Open Office. My main area of expertise is computer graphics i.e. ui/ux. I have previous experience with DirectX and OpenGL. My main focus this couple of years has been mobile development for iOS and Android. Also i know design and prototyping.
I want to help make Open Office better and dusty off my C++ skills. I am currently trying to build Open Office on the Windows platform and i 've faced a problem as Microsoft Windows SDK for Windows 7 and .NET Framework 3.5. SP1 is not available to download. So i 'm stuck at the configure step. Also is Visual Studio 9 necessary? Can Visual Studio 2017 be used, as i can't find the former? That said, i would like to start by making the build process easier(at least on Windows). After many thoughts i 've come up with the following build process: -Install Visual Studio 2017(That means updating the project to work with MSVC 2017 and provide all the other libraries and tools needed for Windows through the VS installation. So all things Windows would be installed through VS). -Create a Windows script that will install all other prerequisites and check out the repo(Provide a .bat file that will be run from the command line which will install Java, Cygwin and it's modules, or install python and through python scripts set up all the above. Then checkout the repo from svn and be ready for build). -Build Open Office as usual. I know that all this may sound a lot because the whole project must be updated to modern tools, but i am willing to try. But first things first, i would be grateful if someone cleared my questions above, for the build process, and after that get familiar with the code and discuss what would work and what not, for making the build process better. And if the later were to happen i believe that new users could be onboarded easier on the project and start working on features. Thanks in advance, George
