On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 1:10 PM, Patricia Shanahan <p...@acm.org> wrote:
> On 11/2/2015 2:33 AM, Damjan Jovanovic wrote: > >> On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 12:57 AM, Patricia Shanahan <p...@acm.org> wrote: >> > ... > >> "Install cygwin, 32bit version" >>> >>> Do I really have to go to 32-bit Cygwin? I have a fine 64-bit Cygwin >>> already running on my 16 GB memory system. >>> >>> >>> I am not sure what impact the bitness of Cygwin has on the build, but as >> I >> discovered recently, AOO doesn't build on Win64. >> >> How are your efforts with AOO development going otherwise Patricia? Do you >> need any help or development ideas? >> >> > I am still working through the instructions for getting ready to build - I > have some other non-software projects that will take a lot of my time this > week. > > By "Win64" do you mean any 64-bit MS-Windows system? If so, that is a very > serious issue. I do development on a 64-bit Windows 8.1 system. Has anyone > successfully built on that OS? > > You can build 32 bit AOO binaries on 64-bit Windows, but you cannot build 64 bit AOO Windows binaries anywhere, it still needs to be ported there. > I am experimenting with installing Linux on other computers, but none of > them has the compute power, memory, or monitor size for serious development. > > Linux virtualises well, and builds significantly faster than Windows.
