Re: Error building LibreOffice on Windows (Cygwin)

2022-03-12 Thread Ilmari Lauhakangas
On 12.3.2022 19.12, Ahmed Abdelatty Mohamed Radalla wrote: Greetings, I am trying to build LibreOffice on Windows using LODE. I installed the prerequisites (MSVC & JDK) and then followed the instructions on the wiki. When it was time to build, I got this error: checking the dependency genera

Error building LibreOffice on Windows (Cygwin)

2022-03-12 Thread Ahmed Abdelatty Mohamed Radalla
Greetings,I am trying to build LibreOffice on Windows using LODE. I installed the prerequisites (MSVC & JDK) and then followed the instructions on the wiki. When it was time to build, I got this error:checking the dependency generation prefix (clang.exe -showIncludes)... configure: error: cannot de

Re: Using Amazon Corretto as Oracle JDK replacement for building LibreOffice on Windows

2019-05-30 Thread Tomaž Vajngerl
Hi, On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 9:46 PM Kaganski Mike wrote: > Hi, > So this is just to let you know in case you need an alternative JRE. > > Another alternative is Red Hat OpenJDK [1] (which is probably more or less identical to Amazon Corretto). I didn't try it however, but probably will the next

Re: Using Amazon Corretto as Oracle JDK replacement for building LibreOffice on Windows

2019-05-30 Thread Michael Weghorn
Hi, On 30/05/2019 14.46, Kaganski Mike wrote: > Since Oracle JDK versions prior to 12 are now unavailable from the > official site [1] for unregistered users (and version 12 is said to > still have problems/needs workarounds [2]), I decided to give Amazon > Corretto [3] a try. As a side note,

Using Amazon Corretto as Oracle JDK replacement for building LibreOffice on Windows

2019-05-30 Thread Kaganski Mike
Hi, Since Oracle JDK versions prior to 12 are now unavailable from the official site [1] for unregistered users (and version 12 is said to still have problems/needs workarounds [2]), I decided to give Amazon Corretto [3] a try. I downloaded and installed the two MSIs listed on that page (amazo

Re: Unit test failure on building LibreOffice on Windows

2016-02-17 Thread Michael Stahl
On 16.02.2016 21:03, Paul Blinzer wrote: > Michael, et al, > > thank you for the suggestion of --disable-atl. Using it let the compile > go through. ok... i was more suspecting that nobody had tested --disable-atl and thus some test that actually required ATL was not disabled in that case, but go

Re: Unit test failure on building LibreOffice on Windows

2016-02-16 Thread Paul Blinzer
Michael, et al, thank you for the suggestion of --disable-atl. Using it let the compile go through. Also for the good news, to root cause the ATL issue I reinstalled VS2013 community alongside VS2015 community and with that the compilation went through just fine. So no action on your side necessar

Re: Unit test failure on building LibreOffice on Windows

2016-02-12 Thread Paul Blinzer
Michael, thanks for the pointer, I have the "community edition" installed and I have not used that option... The build install on that machine is pretty much by the book (or better, the web page). I'll gather up the files and send it to you via PM (unless I can glimpse what's going on myself in wh

Re: Unit test failure on building LibreOffice on Windows

2016-02-12 Thread Michael Stahl
On 12.02.2016 06:43, Paul Blinzer wrote: > Compilation went well until reaching unit test for the xmltesttools (see > below for output). > [build CUT] sc_condformats > C:/sources/libo-core/test/source/xmltesttools.cxx:70:SdExportTest::testBnc822341 > equality assertion failed > - Expected: 1 > - A

Unit test failure on building LibreOffice on Windows

2016-02-11 Thread Paul Blinzer
Still working on getting a basic compile of LibreOffice on Windows working (Linux version compilation goes smoothly). Platfom: Windows 10 64bit, running Cygwin 32 LODE build setup to compile libreoffice. Using VS2013 Community edition. Default setup of build envrionment as outlined in https://wiki

Re: Build fail when building Libreoffice on Windows.

2016-02-11 Thread Michael Stahl
On 11.02.2016 06:29, Paul Blinzer wrote: > Platfom: Windows 10 64bit, running Cygwin 32 LODE build setup to compile > libreoffice. > Default setup of build envrionment as outlined in > https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/BuildingOnWindows > > Synced up to git repo today (2/10/2016) > C

Build fail when building Libreoffice on Windows.

2016-02-10 Thread Paul Blinzer
Platfom: Windows 10 64bit, running Cygwin 32 LODE build setup to compile libreoffice. Default setup of build envrionment as outlined in https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/BuildingOnWindows Synced up to git repo today (2/10/2016) Compilation went well until reaching unit test for ssl c

Re: Building LibreOffice on Windows

2014-01-13 Thread Afreen Bano
Christian Lohmaier googlemail.com> writes: > > Hi Alfreen, *, > > On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 3:26 PM, Afreen Bano gmail.com> wrote: > > > > After runnning the command "/opt/lo/bin/make" I got the below error: > > > > "make[1]:INTERNAL: Exiting with 1jobserver token available should be 2! > > mak

Re: Building LibreOffice on Windows

2014-01-10 Thread Christian Lohmaier
Hi Alfreen, *, On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 3:26 PM, Afreen Bano wrote: > > After runnning the command "/opt/lo/bin/make" I got the below error: > > "make[1]:INTERNAL: Exiting with 1jobserver token available should be 2! > make:***[build] Error2" > [...] > Please anyone tell me what should I do to bu

Re: Building LibreOffice on Windows

2014-01-10 Thread Afreen Bano
Hello, I am trying to build Libreoffice on windows7 (32bit), for this I referred to the below link: "https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Windows_Build_Dependencies"; I installed Visual studio 2012 along with Cygwin version 4. After runnning the command "/opt/lo/bin/make" I got the

Re: [HOW-TO] Building LibreOffice on Windows using RAM-Drive

2012-05-07 Thread Noel Grandin
I was only using Matus' patch when I did the successful build. On 2012-05-07 16:28, Matúš Kukan wrote: On 7 May 2012 14:26, Noel Grandin wrote: (3) You need Matus Kukan's patch to use mixed paths under cygwin (at least until it gets committed). I think Michael's patch [1] also helps? Just say

Re: [HOW-TO] Building LibreOffice on Windows using RAM-Drive

2012-05-07 Thread Matúš Kukan
On 7 May 2012 14:26, Noel Grandin wrote: > (3) You need Matus Kukan's patch to use mixed paths under cygwin (at least > until it gets committed). I think Michael's patch [1] also helps? Just saying there are also other options. [1] http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice/2012-May/03116

Re: [HOW-TO] Building LibreOffice on Windows using RAM-Drive

2012-05-07 Thread Jesús Corrius
On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 4:15 PM, Noel Grandin wrote: > Was 1h55 before, now approx 55min Just for reference: 3h45m for a Windows full debug build in my computer using the VM. -- Jesús Corrius ___ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop

Re: [HOW-TO] Building LibreOffice on Windows using RAM-Drive

2012-05-07 Thread Noel Grandin
Was 1h55 before, now approx 55min On 2012-05-07 16:06, Norbert Thiebaud wrote: As oppose to how long before ? iow what is the gain ? Disclaimer: http://www.peralex.com/disclaimer.html ___ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org h

Re: [HOW-TO] Building LibreOffice on Windows using RAM-Drive

2012-05-07 Thread Norbert Thiebaud
On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 5:26 AM, Noel Grandin wrote: > On 2012-05-07 14:08, Andras Timar wrote: >> >> Out of interest, could you please share the know-how of building with >> RAM-Drive under Windows 7? Thanks, Andras > > > (0) I'm building under Windows7-64, using the latest Cygwin release, and the

[HOW-TO] Building LibreOffice on Windows using RAM-Drive

2012-05-07 Thread Noel Grandin
On 2012-05-07 14:08, Andras Timar wrote: Out of interest, could you please share the know-how of building with RAM-Drive under Windows 7? Thanks, Andras (0) I'm building under Windows7-64, using the latest Cygwin release, and the Visual Studio 2008 compiler. (1) I use the excellent free (do

Re: Building LibreOffice on Windows

2012-02-21 Thread Noel Grandin
We have 233000 lines of makefile code using a mix of dmake and gmake. Good luck converting that to cmake. On 2012-02-20 09:52, Josh Heidenreich wrote: Hi, Okay so it might be nuts, but has anyone tried creating a native VS solution/projects, which ruins inside the ide? Could one be created c

Re: Building LibreOffice on Windows

2012-02-21 Thread Randall G. Arnold
On February 17, 2012 at 11:22 AM Tor Lillqvist wrote: > > Projects like this have to > > battle the "embrace, extend, extinguish" philosophy of commercial interests. > > What makes you think only commercial entities have that philosophy? As > far as I know Linux, also embraces and extends POSI

R: I: Building LibreOffice on Windows

2012-02-20 Thread walter
febbraio 2012 18:55 A: w.guerri...@ranocchilab.com Cc: libreoffice@lists.freedesktop.org Oggetto: Re: I: Building LibreOffice on Windows Weird, I have a 6-core Windows machine compiling 12 things at once, no problem. On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 18:37, walter wrote: > > In fact, my problem is

Re: I: Building LibreOffice on Windows

2012-02-20 Thread Noel Grandin
chilab.com > Cc: Bjoern Michaelsen; libreoffice@lists.freedesktop.org > Oggetto: Re: Building LibreOffice on Windows > >> In any case the problem remains that cl.exe is not able to use all the >> cpu power. > > You said you see max 13% CPU usage by each cl.exe process on a four-cor

I: Building LibreOffice on Windows

2012-02-20 Thread walter
op.or g] Per conto di Tor Lillqvist Inviato: lunedì 20 febbraio 2012 16:58 A: w.guerri...@ranocchilab.com Cc: Bjoern Michaelsen; libreoffice@lists.freedesktop.org Oggetto: Re: Building LibreOffice on Windows > In any case the problem remains that cl.exe is not able to use all the > cpu power

Re: Building LibreOffice on Windows

2012-02-20 Thread Tor Lillqvist
> Not the last time I benchmarked it (which was long before > filter-showIncludes.pl). For the most part the slowness of forking on windows > was related to some latency, i.e. a new process would take some time to get > started, but it wouldnt eat cycles for that, thus making it irrelevant in a > p

Re: Building LibreOffice on Windows

2012-02-20 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
Hi, On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 05:42:11PM +0200, Tor Lillqvist wrote: > And the slowness of Cygwin's forking and executing the various Perl, > shell and whatnot processes involved in each file being compiled (note > the pipe to filter-showIncludes.pl) has nothing to do with it? Not the last time I

R: Building LibreOffice on Windows

2012-02-20 Thread walter
Yes, indeed, i have taken a huge blindness !! > In any case the problem remains that cl.exe is not able to use all the > cpu power. You said you see max 13% CPU usage by each cl.exe process on a four-core, hyperthreading machine (i.e. 8-processor from Windows's point of view)? What is 100 di

Re: Building LibreOffice on Windows

2012-02-20 Thread Jesús Corrius
> Did you go with cmake, a cmake-style solution (something which > converted makefiles to VS projects) or manually maintained them? Manually maintained. I started using cmake but it had to be discarded for some reason. Unfortunately I don't remember why, but it was a long time ago so it may not be

Re: Building LibreOffice on Windows

2012-02-20 Thread Tor Lillqvist
> In any case the problem remains that cl.exe is not able to use all the cpu > power. You said you see max 13% CPU usage by each cl.exe process on a four-core, hyperthreading machine (i.e. 8-processor from Windows's point of view)? What is 100 divided by 8? --tml

R: Building LibreOffice on Windows

2012-02-20 Thread walter
In any case the problem remains that cl.exe is not able to use all the cpu power. I think that this problem must be analyzed. Best, walter > I have noted that on my machine the cl.exe process is unable to push a > cpu core to the limit. M

Re: Building LibreOffice on Windows

2012-02-20 Thread Tor Lillqvist
> I think that is oversimplifying things quite a bit. Well, what isn't? Excuse me for writing quick emails without spending a week researching first. > While there are some > stability issues with cygwin "some" stability issues? > when combined with evil Windows necessities like > in-memory-vir

Re: Building LibreOffice on Windows

2012-02-20 Thread Tor Lillqvist
> I have noted that on my machine the cl.exe process is unable to push a cpu > core to the limit. My experience is the opposite; I occasionally see a cl.exe taking over 25% CPU on a four-core system (not HT)... Might of course just be rounding errors; in any case for compilations taking a long tim

R: Building LibreOffice on Windows

2012-02-20 Thread walter
Hi * About windows / Cygwin performance. I have noted that on my machine the cl.exe process is unable to push a cpu core to the limit. The best that the cl.exe can is 13% cpu usage without any I/O activity. Where is the time spent ? Any Idea ? I have a i7 870 @ 2.93 GHz, HT enabled. Best, Walter

Re: Building LibreOffice on Windows

2012-02-20 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
Hi, On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 02:06:37PM +0200, Tor Lillqvist wrote: > The main problem in building LibreOffice for Windows on Windows > currently is that the *open source* stuff used in the build, i.e. > Cygwin, is slow and causes random errors. The Microsoft compiler and > linker work fine. If the

Re: Building LibreOffice on Windows

2012-02-20 Thread Josh Heidenreich
Hi Jesus, Tor, *, > It can be done, yes. But it requires several months of work from > someone who knows what is doing and the result would probably be a > nightmare to maintain. Did you go with cmake, a cmake-style solution (something which converted makefiles to VS projects) or manually maintai

Re: Building LibreOffice on Windows

2012-02-20 Thread Tor Lillqvist
> Speaking with Italo Vignoli (The Document Foundation) I understood that the > goal was to use only open source tools so you do not have to depend in any > way by the owners tools, such as Microsoft. Bah. I don't agree with that. After all, we are talking about building software to run on a Mi

R: Building LibreOffice on Windows

2012-02-20 Thread walter
Windows > But .. isn't there a project that involves the complete replacement > of the MS compiler? Yes. But that is not used *on* Windows. The subject of this thread is "Building LibreOffice *on* Windows". MinGW (the commonly used name for the GNU compiler and tool-

Re: Building LibreOffice on Windows

2012-02-20 Thread Tor Lillqvist
> AFAIK that was a pure community effort and not backed by Sun/Oracle. I meant that Sun/Oracle was behind OpenOffice.org. --tml ___ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice

Re: Building LibreOffice on Windows

2012-02-20 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 01:36:46PM +0200, Tor Lillqvist wrote: > OpenOffice.org, at least back when Sun/Oracle still was behind it, had > a few (?) people working on using MinGW on Windows. We are not > interested in that. Correspondingly they had not worked on > cross-compilation (to any platform)

Re: Building LibreOffice on Windows

2012-02-20 Thread Tor Lillqvist
> But .. isn't  there a project that involves the complete replacement of the > MS compiler? Yes. But that is not used *on* Windows. The subject of this thread is "Building LibreOffice *on* Windows". MinGW (the commonly used name for the GNU compiler and tool-chain when

R: Building LibreOffice on Windows

2012-02-20 Thread walter
But .. isn't there a project that involves the complete replacement of the MS compiler? Best Regards walter ___ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice

Re: Building LibreOffice on Windows

2012-02-20 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 09:44:50AM +, Michael Meeks wrote: > > On Mon, 2012-02-20 at 18:22 +1030, Josh Heidenreich wrote: > > Okay so it might be nuts, but has anyone tried creating a native VS > > solution/projects, which ruins inside the ide? Could one be created > > cmake style perhaps? >

Re: Building LibreOffice on Windows

2012-02-20 Thread Jesús Corrius
> Okay so it might be nuts, but has anyone tried creating a native VS > solution/projects, which ruins inside the ide? Could one be created cmake > style perhaps? 5 years ago I did that for a non trivial Open Source project (it included gtk, python, gstreamer, etc.). I would say it was more or les

Re: Building LibreOffice on Windows

2012-02-20 Thread Tor Lillqvist
> Okay so it might be nuts, but has anyone tried creating a native VS > solution/projects, which ruins inside the ide? In theory it should be fairly trivial to create a "native" (whatever that means) VS solution that just runs the same Cygwin make that you would start manually otherwise. But I gu

Re: Building LibreOffice on Windows

2012-02-20 Thread Michael Meeks
On Mon, 2012-02-20 at 18:22 +1030, Josh Heidenreich wrote: > Okay so it might be nuts, but has anyone tried creating a native VS > solution/projects, which ruins inside the ide? Could one be created > cmake style perhaps? Ruins ? :-) I suspect that, unless this can be compiled from the gn

Re: Building LibreOffice on Windows

2012-02-19 Thread Josh Heidenreich
Hi, Okay so it might be nuts, but has anyone tried creating a native VS solution/projects, which ruins inside the ide? Could one be created cmake style perhaps? Josh ___ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop

Re: Building LibreOffice on Windows

2012-02-19 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
Hi, On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 11:14:28AM -0500, Kohei Yoshida wrote: > > If at all possible, rather run Ubuntu (or some other Linux distro) > > inside a VMWare virtual machine on your Windows desktop. > > Don't forget openSUSE and Fedora. We have quite a number of core > developers from both of th

Re: Building LibreOffice on Windows

2012-02-18 Thread Tor Lillqvist
>> > Projects like this have to battle the "embrace, extend, extinguish" >> > philosophy of commercial >> > interests. >> What makes you think only commercial entities have that philosophy? > What makes you think I thought that? I misunderstood your use of "battle". I thought you meant that onl

Re: Building LibreOffice on Windows

2012-02-17 Thread Tor Lillqvist
> Projects like this have to > battle the "embrace, extend, extinguish" philosophy of commercial interests. What makes you think only commercial entities have that philosophy? As far as I know Linux, also embraces and extends POSIX, for instance, and has more or less managed to extinguish quite ma

Re: Building LibreOffice on Windows

2012-02-17 Thread Randall G. Arnold
On February 16, 2012 at 11:23 AM "Jesús Corrius" wrote: > Hi guys, > > > If at all possible, rather run Ubuntu (or some other Linux distro) inside a > > VMWare virtual machine on your Windows desktop. > > We should encourage Windows developers to join the project to have a > better Windows ver

Re: Building LibreOffice on Windows

2012-02-17 Thread Caolán McNamara
On Thu, 2012-02-16 at 17:19 +0100, Michael Stahl wrote: > well, nobody builds on Windows. because the Windows build is very often > broken. which is because nobody builds on Windows. I build it on occasion, a master from a day or two ago built fine with express 2008 C.

Re: Building LibreOffice on Windows

2012-02-16 Thread Jan Holesovsky
Hi Gareth, Tor Lillqvist píše v Čt 16. 02. 2012 v 17:13 +0200: > This is a short summary, and I might be missing something. For more > detail, there should be stuff in the wiki. Don't hesitate to ask more > on this list! And as you read the wiki, please fix inconsistencies you > notice, that is w

Re: R: R: Building LibreOffice on Windows

2012-02-16 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Walter, On Thu, 2012-02-16 at 18:50 +0100, walter wrote: > A few weeks ago I spoke by telephone with Italo Vignoli (The Document > Foundation) explaining my needs and the work that I hope to do. Sure, but unless you clearly explain your needs, it's hard for everyone else to know what y

Re: Building LibreOffice on Windows

2012-02-16 Thread Michael Meeks
On Thu, 2012-02-16 at 20:34 +0200, Tor Lillqvist wrote: > > That would be great but I don't think it would be very legal to distribute > > it :) > > Not to the general public, but surely to specfic customers that can > prove they have the required licenses themselves already? But IANAL...

Re: Building LibreOffice on Windows

2012-02-16 Thread Tor Lillqvist
> That would be great but I don't think it would be very legal to distribute it > :) Not to the general public, but surely to specfic customers that can prove they have the required licenses themselves already? But IANAL... --tml ___ LibreOffice mailin

R: R: Building LibreOffice on Windows

2012-02-16 Thread walter
A few weeks ago I spoke by telephone with Italo Vignoli (The Document Foundation) explaining my needs and the work that I hope to do. Regards walter ___ On Thu, 2012-02-16 at 18:24 +0100, walter

Re: R: Building LibreOffice on Windows

2012-02-16 Thread Michael Meeks
On Thu, 2012-02-16 at 18:24 +0100, walter wrote: > My only problem is knowing whether to invest my time in 'cygwin' or Linux. > I need to build a customized version, and the new code will be returned to > the community It depends what you want to achieve. If you want to get a bug fixed th

R: Building LibreOffice on Windows

2012-02-16 Thread walter
>In other words, you are doing this commercially, as part of your job, for business purposes? [walter] YES >So you are instead demanding that the "community" (which consists of volunteers spending their own personal resources, and paid developers working for >companies that might even be your co

Re: Building LibreOffice on Windows

2012-02-16 Thread Jesús Corrius
Hi Tor, > > Or you could contract out the effort of setting up a working build > environment on a machine... For instance provide a Windows virtual > machine image with everything set up. That would be great but I don't think it would be very legal to distribute it :) -- Jesús Corrius

Re: Building LibreOffice on Windows

2012-02-16 Thread Tor Lillqvist
> I am a windows developer and I need to integrate LibreOffice in our windows > business application. In other words, you are doing this commercially, as part of your job, for business purposes? > I would have a hard time switching to develop using Linux. We don't have any immediate plans to dro

Re: R: Building LibreOffice on Windows

2012-02-16 Thread Kohei Yoshida
On Thu, 2012-02-16 at 18:02 +0100, walter wrote: > It would be interesting that a core developer uses Cygwin :) I do when I'm on Windows. It's not like we have any other choices anyway. Kohei -- Kohei Yoshida, LibreOffice hacker, Calc ___ LibreOffic

Re: Building LibreOffice on Windows

2012-02-16 Thread Jesús Corrius
> It would be interesting that a core developer uses Cygwin :) The build on Windows using cygwin is more complicated than on Linux. But once you have the beast built, the development should be exactly the same. -- Jesús Corrius ___ LibreOffice mailing

R: Building LibreOffice on Windows

2012-02-16 Thread walter
It would be interesting that a core developer uses Cygwin :) > But the real problem is that if the community does not want or can not > support then development on the windows platform is good for me to say > this very clearly. > I can not go and play around and waste time in this way. What d

Re: Building LibreOffice on Windows

2012-02-16 Thread Jesús Corrius
> But the real problem is that if the community does not want or can not > support then development on the windows platform is good for me to say this > very clearly. > I can not go and play around and waste time in this way. What do you mean by supported? -- Jesús Corrius _

R: Building LibreOffice on Windows

2012-02-16 Thread walter
I am a windows developer and I need to integrate LibreOffice in our windows business application. I would have a hard time switching to develop using Linux. But the real problem is that if the community does not want or can not support then development on the windows platform is good for me to say

Re: Building LibreOffice on Windows

2012-02-16 Thread Jesús Corrius
Hi guys, > If at all possible, rather run Ubuntu (or some other Linux distro) inside a > VMWare virtual machine on your Windows desktop. We should encourage Windows developers to join the project to have a better Windows version. Telling them to use Linux will not improve the situation. -- Jesú

Re: Building LibreOffice on Windows

2012-02-16 Thread Michael Stahl
On 16/02/12 16:17, Noel Grandin wrote: > Hi > > If at all possible, rather run Ubuntu (or some other Linux distro) > inside a VMWare virtual machine on your Windows desktop. > > It's much easier, speaking as someone who does just that, after spending > too long fighting with building under Window

Re: Building LibreOffice on Windows

2012-02-16 Thread Kohei Yoshida
On Thu, 2012-02-16 at 17:17 +0200, Noel Grandin wrote: > Hi > > If at all possible, rather run Ubuntu (or some other Linux distro) > inside a VMWare virtual machine on your Windows desktop. Don't forget openSUSE and Fedora. We have quite a number of core developers from both of these distros, so

R: Building LibreOffice on Windows

2012-02-16 Thread walter
In the long run the best choice is definitely to abandon cygwin and develop using Linux. I used cygwin for a little while and I've seen that is not well supported L Which version of Linux is better to use? There are big differences between using Ubuntu and CentOS? Regards, walter

Re: Building LibreOffice on Windows

2012-02-16 Thread Noel Grandin
Hi If at all possible, rather run Ubuntu (or some other Linux distro) inside a VMWare virtual machine on your Windows desktop. It's much easier, speaking as someone who does just that, after spending too long fighting with building under Windows. Regards, Noel. On 2012-02-16 16:54, Gareth

Re: Building LibreOffice on Windows

2012-02-16 Thread Tor Lillqvist
> New to open source and attracted to LibreOffice and I want to start > contributing. Great! Welcome! > But how does the whole build process work on Windows? This is a short summary, and I might be missing something. For more detail, there should be stuff in the wiki. Don't hesitate to ask more

Building LibreOffice on Windows

2012-02-16 Thread Gareth Nicholson
Hi, New to open source and attracted to LibreOffice and I want to start contributing. But how does the whole build process work on Windows? Gareth ___ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listin

Re: [Libreoffice] Building libreoffice on windows

2011-07-05 Thread Caolán McNamara
On Thu, 2011-06-30 at 10:11 +0100, Stuart Ledwich (Hotmail) wrote: > ... -IH:/src/libre/bootstrap ... > c1 : fatal error C1083: Cannot open source file: 'pango-enum-types.c': No > such file or directory You know, I think this is the same problem I had recently, which seemed to be triggered by bui

[Libreoffice] Building libreoffice on windows

2011-06-30 Thread Stuart Ledwich (Hotmail)
I am attempting to build libre in debug mode on windows and after quite some time I have hit the following problem: cl -MDd -W3 -nologo -I. -I.. -I. -IH:/src/libre/bootstrap/solver/350/wntmsci12.pro/inc/stl -IH:/src/libre/bootstrap/solver/350/wntmsci12.pro/inc/external -IH:/src/libre/