Hello everyone, I 'm currently trying to build Open Office on Windows. I 've setup most of the environment but I am having trouble finding the Windows 7.0 SDK, witch contains MSVC 2008, as it is unavailable from Microsoft. Peter kindly pointed me at an image of Windows Server 2008 Standard <https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=5023>. Should I setup a VM with that image, or download Windows 7? I 'm currently trying to build on a Windows 10 machine. Any help and directions would be welcome.
That said, I would like to contribute to Open Office, by making the build process easier and migrating the project for Windows on MSVC 2017. I have thought of the following build process: - Install Visual Studio 2017(All libraries and tools needed would be provided through the installation) - Install all other prerequisites using a Windows BATCH file(Provide a .bat file for automating installation of Java, Cygwin etc. and setting up the modules. Or, if complexity demands it, install python and do all the above through it. Optimally, checkout the repo from svn and be ready for build). - Build Open Office as usual. That might be complicated, but I 'm willing to try. I 'm currently trying to familiarize my self with the code and I would be grateful if someone pointed me to the right direction. Let's keep an open discussion of Open Office's build process. Feel free to suggest new things or improve my own. Thanks in advance, George
