Just a quick reply. I have found the SDK here: https://www.apache.org/dist/openoffice/4.1.5/binaries/SDK/Apache_OpenOffice-SDK_4.1.5_Win_x86_install_en-US.exe Is this the correct one?
On Tue, 9 Oct 2018 at 12:41, Peter Kovacs <pe...@apache.org> wrote: > Hello Farrukh Waheed > > On 10/9/18 9:00 AM, Farrukh Waheed wrote: > > Hi Peter, > > Thanks for the detailed reply. > > How you guys are building it for Windows on your sides if SDK is not > > available anymore? > > You are welcome. I try my best to get folks started. > > People who build for windows have set up machines for this. And I think > someone has the ISO of the SDK as a download. > > If you ask on dev@, I am sure someone will help you out. We are > migrating, but it is a difficult and challenging process. OpenOffice is > very complex application as you can guess on build times below. > > And we are only a view people active who are maintaining the software. > > > > > Build related documents shows the pre-requisites and looks like I may > > have to build it on my machine directly (no build server like Cheff or > > Maven etc). And I guess, I could use GCC compilers here. > > Yes we require that devs build their own versions. Since we would like > to avoid that your change breaks something as much as possible. Also you > have the option to do a partial build once you have a build version, > which saves a lot of build time. I am not sure if this feature is used > often. > > I think most devs are using VMs as building machines. We have discussed > to make the VMs exchangeable, but it never got followed up. > > We have a build server where builds are done. (Buildtime is about 10h > on those machines.) > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Buildbot+info > > We currently have no build bot for MacOSx releases. That are build by > developers with mac. We know about the topic, and would like to solve it. > > > > > I've not used Linux since a long time. Please let me know, if on > > Linux, I can build for Windows too, so either I would get a Linux VM > > or may use some extra machine to install Linux on it and made it a > > build machine. > > In which technology, you are building the msi file... ?? > Since you need the SDK it does not matter where you build. I think it is > better not to do cross platform builds. > > > > I think, I may be a good help in WIX. > Awesome! :) > > > > Yes, I will be subscribing to dev mailing list too. > > Awesome! > > > All the best > > Peter > >
