Hi there, I'm attempting to build LO on 64bit Windows 7 using the Visual Studio 2010 Express using a combination of the instructions here:
http://www.documentfoundation.org/develop/ And the somewhat scattered instructions here (as there is no windows section on libreoffice.org yet): http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Building_Guide/Building_on_Windows#software_requirements So far, I've run into the following issues: 1) The list of cygwin modules to install is not up to date. So far I have installed the following: * autoconf * automake * bison * cabextract * flex * gcc-g++ * git * gnupg * gperf * libxml2-devel * libpng12-devel * make * mintty * openssh * openssl * patch * perl * pkg-config * readline * rsync * unzip * wget * zip Can this list be put onto the lo.org website? Is there some funky way to instruct cygwin to install a list of packages in the same way that something like sudo apt-get build-dep openoffice.org works? 2) The requirement to use 'cydrive paths' - it's worth maybe saying to put the git checkout into a directory like c:\lo and then doing a cd /cygdrive/c/lo before running autogen.sh to ensure that the correct path is used? 3) If pkg-config is not installed, PKG_CHECK_MODULES is not defined and autogen.sh fails with the message: ./configure: line 3598: syntax error near unexpected token `MINIMUM_REQS,' ./configure: line 3598: `PKG_CHECK_MODULES( MINIMUM_REQS,' Rather than something more useful like 'Please install pkg-config' (I logged https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30989 for this) Okay! Most of the battle so far was figuring out what cygwin packages to install and how to get the correct cygdrive paths - can someone add a windows section to http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/LibreOffice/HowToBuild with the info in this email? Thanks, Martin _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
