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: 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

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

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

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

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

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 targeting Windows) is supp

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: 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

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: 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

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 _

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

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