On 30.01.2014 09:40, Andre Fischer wrote:
1. Is it possible to build on OSX with only freely available tools (that
don't require registration)?
Apple's XCode development environment is available for free in either
their app store or in their "downloads for developers" area. Apple
requires a registrations for both.
Since an Xcode download is a plain disk-image file that could be easily
redistributed there might be alternative channels for them, but I'd
strongly recommend to use the reliable and legal download locations from
the original provider Apple. If there are direct download links at Apple
that don't require registration then they are not well publicized. If
anyone knows such a link please provide it.
2. Is there anybody with access to a Mac who is willing to extend the
building guide to cover OSX?
[2] and [3] describe in some detail how to build OpenOffice on
Windows and Linux (in its Ubuntu flavor) but hardly a word on OSX.
Once XCode is installed it's just the plain generic svn-checkout,
configure and build steps documented in [1]. The good thing about XCode
is that it provides all that's needed.
3. I remember that I also had to set up macports [4] for some frequently
used shell commands (I think) but that is not mentioned anywhere in the
building guide. Is it not needed anymore?
I don't have macports or fink installed and can build just fine. All our
build requirements are covered by Xcode.
Of course these tool sets provide a lot of value, e.g. if anyone prefers
to write his helper scripts in e.g. Lisp then macports is a good way to
get a lisp interpreter for free. But our build doesn't require any of this.
I think that it is not enough that it is theoretically possible to build
OpenOffice on Mac OSX. It should also be documented in a public place
so that everybody can do it.
Get XCode 4.5 and install it.
Do the generic AOO build [1].
[1] https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Building_Guide_AOO
By the way, I'm working on enabling an AOO build with newer XCode
versions, that no longer provide a 10.7 SDK.
I'd suggest to not give up so easily. If a download requires a
registration then annoying as it may be, it is nothing a reasonably
experienced developer cannot handle. Even Mac newbies often manage to
get things from the App Store.
Herbert
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