Hi, I'd like to share my experience since I didn't see this on Developer's wiki. When I was trying to build LibreOffice in Windows, autogen.sh was not able to finish its job, with message below:
checking cl.exe... found Visual C++ 2013 (E:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0/VC/bin/cl.exe) cygpath: cannot create short name of 12.0\VC\Include realpath: '12.0/VC': No such file or directory configure: WARNING: realpath failed for "12.0/VC", not necessarily a problem. checking the dependency generation prefix (cl.exe -showIncludes)... configure: error: cannot determine the -showIncludes prefix Error running configure at ./autogen.sh line 269. Apparently path for Visual Studio broke into parts out of expectation. After investigation I found that cygpath -d doesn't convert it into 8.3 file name format as it's manual describe. It still generates long file name. The solution is simple, the partition has to enable 8.3 format support *BEFORE* you install Visual Studio, with following command: fsutil 8dot3name set e: 0 0.represents active. Change the drive letter e to whatever you use. I use Windows8 to build LibreOffice ( A surface3 tablet ). I had built successfully on Windows7 VM without tuning mentioned above. Both Visual Studio and LO source code are installed in a VHD disk image on a microSDHC. I guess that one of them makes the difference. -- Mark Hung
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