Re: Fwd: I am a student of BS-Software Engineering

[Peter Kovacs]

This SDK you need for building Extentions for OpenOffice.
The SDK I talk about is this one:

Microsoft Windows SDK for Windows 7 and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 and this 
link is dead: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=3138

If you check here you see the requirements on your windows machine:

https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Building_Guide_AOO/Building_on_Windows


HTH

On 10/9/18 10:22 AM, Farrukh Waheed wrote:
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