Hi :) Hmm, one of my colleagues has just left for the day leaving an Xp machine that i could try to use for this. Unfortunately both my bosses are still here and might be a bit 'funny' about me spending time on it. Is it fairly quick&easy to set it up to compile? Is Xp the right OS? I could reboot it into Ubuntu 12.04 (might be 10.04 i can never remember which is on which machine at the moment). Heinrich was looking for an Xp build or Win7? Note that even if i do start this it's a first time for me so i'm not expecting success. Regards from Tom :)
>________________________________ > From: Alexander Thurgood <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Tuesday, 15 January 2013, 14:50 >Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: MySQL-Native Connector for 4.0 > >Le 15/01/13 14:59, Tom Davies a écrit : >> Hi :) >> Is it worth learning how to compile from source in order to get one tailored >> to your system? > >IMHO, yes, it is an interesting, if sometimes rather frustrating, >experience for a non-developer/casual software builder. > > >On the other hand i gather it ties-up a desktop machine for quite a >while so if you don't have access to several machines then it might be a >pain. > >Building does indeed take a while, on my 4gig RAM Linux box, about 10 - >12 hours, sometimes more if there are lots of changes in the git repo. > >> >> I keep being told that compiling is "really not difficult" but it still >> scares me. > >Nothing to be scared about. It won't trash your machine (but might make >the GUI unusable if you don't have much RAM). Patience is definitely a >virtue when it comes to building LO. It is just that when the build >fails, there's not always an obvious explanation for why, especially if >it built fine previously for several days, or even months. > > >Alex > > -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
