RE: Who wants to build OpenOffice? - win32, win64

["Dennis E. Hamilton" <de...@acm.org>]

Thanks Mathias,

I have seen some of those posts on LO, but I didn't see/understand details.

I can imagine there are differences because of changes in how VS2010 uses MSBuild, although I don't know why command-line use of cl.exe from the Make would have changed.  It will be interesting to find out exactly what changed that is a problem.

I suppose the idea would be to find out how to make it work with 2010 (I am slow anyhow), with the goal of building a win-64bit version of OO.o.  If there are C++ Language changes, that is a bigger problem of course.

I will keep looking for what is necessary.  I have VC++ 2008 Express Edition and SDK 7.0 on my Tablet PC.  It can probably be used for a reality check.  Based on what you said about doing a build from a USB drive, I think I can work on the Tablet PC and build from a shared folder on my local network.  

Thanks for the feedback.

 - Dennis

-----Original Message-----
From: Mathias Bauer [mailto:Mathias_Bauer@gmx.net] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2011 01:02
To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org
Subject: Re: Who wants to build OpenOffice?

Hi Dennis,

Am 31.08.2011 02:32, schrieb Dennis E. Hamilton:

> I'll bite.  I've got a Dell XPS 9100 running Windows 7 x64 with 1.6TB
> free on the HD (only 7200RPM though, keeps my Windows Experience
> Index at 5.9 - everything else in 7.7-7.8), 18GB DDR3 RAM, and Intel
> i7X980 processor.  I've got a few more TB on a LAN-based server; I
> suspect compiling from an SVN Working Copy there is probably not a
> smart idea, though I could try that someday.
> 
> I already have an SVN Working copy on the local HD.  I am certain
> there are tools I don't have.  I am also running Visual C++ 2010 (not
> 2008) Express Edition on this box, so that will provide an
> interesting challenge.  Microsoft SDK v7.1 is installed but I don't
> seem to have the 64-bit compiler.

IIRC there are problems with Visual Studio 2010. I remember some posts
on the LibreOffice dev list, Tor Lillquist, Jesús Corrius and others.

Regards,
Mathias

RE: Who wants to build OpenOffice? - win32, win64

["Dennis E. Hamilton" <de...@acm.org>]

Tor,

As far as I know the 64-bit compiler is not available with VC++ 2008 Express Edition.  VC++ 2010 Express Edition is also 32-bit (only produces x86) but the expanded compilers are available via the Microsoft SDK 7.1.  (They failed to install on my machine, which may mean I need to uninstall all that and install the SDK first to get everything.)  So the VS 2010 issue can't be avoided for building win64 of OpenOffice.org, at least for cheap.

I keep different versions of VC++ on different machines.  Attempting to have them side by side has been messy in the past (projects get converted, etc., although I prefer to compile command-line anyhow).  

In just confirming that I have learned how to build OpenOffice.org for Windows, I will use the VC++ 2008 Express Edition (plus cygwin, perl, and anything else I need to use) and build win32.  I reserve the VC++ 2010 setup for longer-term work and projects beside OpenOffice.

 - Dennis

-----Original Message-----
From: tlillqvist@gmail.com [mailto:tlillqvist@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Tor Lillqvist
Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2011 11:58
To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org; dennis.hamilton@acm.org
Subject: Re: Who wants to build OpenOffice? - win32, win64

> I can imagine there are differences because of changes in how VS2010 uses MSBuild,

(Which would be irrelevant, as the OOo build mechanism does not
involve with MSBuild. Some of the 3rd-party libraries that are/used to
be built with OOo use it I think.)

>  although I don't know why command-line use of cl.exe from the Make would have changed.

It hasn't. (Not a lot, that would affect the options that get passed
by the OOo mechanism, at least.) What has changed is implementation
details of the C++ language and its standard (or "standard") library.

> I suppose the idea would be to find out how to make it work with 2010 (I am slow anyhow), with the goal of building
> a win-64bit version of OO.o.

Well, also VS2008 comes with a variant that produces x64 code. (Dunno,
maybe the express edition of MSVC2008 doesn't include the x64
compiler?) MSVC2008 was what I used when experimenting with a x64
Windows build. Why ask for trouble by at the same time switch to
MSVC2010 *and* to producing 64-bit code?

--tml

Re: Who wants to build OpenOffice? - win32, win64

[Tor Lillqvist <tm...@iki.fi>]

> I can imagine there are differences because of changes in how VS2010 uses MSBuild,

(Which would be irrelevant, as the OOo build mechanism does not
involve with MSBuild. Some of the 3rd-party libraries that are/used to
be built with OOo use it I think.)

>  although I don't know why command-line use of cl.exe from the Make would have changed.

It hasn't. (Not a lot, that would affect the options that get passed
by the OOo mechanism, at least.) What has changed is implementation
details of the C++ language and its standard (or "standard") library.

> I suppose the idea would be to find out how to make it work with 2010 (I am slow anyhow), with the goal of building
> a win-64bit version of OO.o.

Well, also VS2008 comes with a variant that produces x64 code. (Dunno,
maybe the express edition of MSVC2008 doesn't include the x64
compiler?) MSVC2008 was what I used when experimenting with a x64
Windows build. Why ask for trouble by at the same time switch to
MSVC2010 *and* to producing 64-bit code?

--tml