On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Martin Gallwey <mar...@gallwey.com> wrote: > 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?
Martin, Since you have firsthand experience, having bee through it, it would be nice of you to add the appropriate section in this wiki: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development Cheers, Norbert > > Thanks, > > Martin > _______________________________________________ > LibreOffice mailing list > LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice > _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
