On Sun, Jan 5, 2025 at 9:10 PM Matthias Seidel <matthias.sei...@hamburg.de> wrote:
> Hi Damjan, > > Am 05.01.25 um 18:14 schrieb Damjan Jovanovic: > > On Sat, Jan 4, 2025 at 6:48 PM Damjan Jovanovic <dam...@apache.org> > wrote: > > > >> > >> On Fri, Jan 3, 2025 at 4:27 PM Damjan Jovanovic <dam...@apache.org> > wrote: > >> > >>> > >>> On Fri, Jan 3, 2025 at 3:26 PM Matthias Seidel < > >>> matthias.sei...@hamburg.de> wrote: > >>> > >>>> Hi Damjan, > >>>> > >>>> Am 02.01.25 um 21:44 schrieb Damjan Jovanovic: > >>>>> Hi > >>>>> > >>>>> With my latest changes, 112 modules (60%) build successfully, and the > >>>>> remaining blockers currently are: > >>>>> - vcl, which is almost fixed. It needed changing SetClassLong() to > >>>>> SetClassLongPtr(), and several other such Windows API changes for 64 > >>>> bit > >>>>> compatibility. > >>>>> - connectivity, which builds but some of its DLLs (notably dbtools) > >>>> fail to > >>>>> link, with mysterious missing symbol errors. > >>>>> - testtools, which runs a UNO test, which fails as our Win64 UNO > >>>> bridge is > >>>>> still buggy. But I am learning more about x86/amd64 assembly > language, > >>>> and > >>>>> Windows ABI details, such as C++ exception handling in assembly, and > >>>> hope > >>>>> to fix that UNO bridge eventually. > >>>> That sounds great! Do you plan to cherry-pick that for AOO42X? > >>>> > >>> Thank you. With further fixes, 73.5% of modules build now :-). > >>> > >>> > >> It's going far better than expected. With further fixes, today we've > >> reached 158 out of 185 modules (85.4%) building successfully. I've also > >> updated the Wiki page (https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Win64_port) > with > >> various issues I've found during the port. > >> > >> I've also done a preliminary port of the "connectivity" module to > gbuild, > >> which successfully fixed its missing symbol issue. The same issue is now > >> affecting "chart2", so it might get ported to gbuild too ;-). > >> > >> > > Today, after a preliminary gbuild port of "chart2", Windows/AMD64 > building > > reached the "postprocess" stage, the last stage before packaging. It > breaks > > there due to text file deficiencies (.xml, .srs, .xcu etc.) in my gbuild > > ports of connectivity and chart2, which I hope to rectify soon, but the > > fact we get that far means that all the code compiles and links, which > is a > > huge milestone. > > I just tried a build but of course it stopped after some time. > > Is this a private branch you work on or is it available via GitHub? > Some of the changes are in trunk, but the rest are still in a local branch. Given the low quality of certain patches, I was hoping to refine them further before pushing them upstream, but if you want to test now, I can certainly push them to a branch. > > > > > The next major challenge will be getting it to run. With an > > incomplete/buggy UNO bridge, it will probably crash on startup. > > I am eagerly waiting to test it when it fully builds! > Thank you! > > Regards, > > Matthias > > > > > Regards > > Damjan > > > Regards Damjan
