Building on WIndows, revisited

["Dennis E. Hamilton" <or...@apache.org>]

Patricia,

I've been meaning to ping you about progress on building AOO on Windows.  

As much as I don't want to go through the whole POSIX/Cygwin route and also find a way to use Visual Studio Express 2008 on my Windows 10 system (which is already dedicated to Visual Studio 2015 Community Edition), I think this is acute in order to find a better way to build native code on Windows for Windows and smooth the on-ramp for new developers.

I am willing to do that, but I need buddies to work through it with.  I do document and trouble-shoot well.  

What can we do together to get a clean, repeatable build process that can then be improved?

 - Dennis

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patricia Shanahan [mailto:pats@acm.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2015 19:45
> To: dev@openoffice.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Complaint Writer lost 36 pages of my document with no auto
> backup copy.
> 
> +1
> 
> This may be a good project for me to participate in, along with people
> who know AOO internals. I have a lot of practical experience with
> tracking down and fixing extremely obscure intermittent bugs in
> operating systems and prototypes of cache coherent multiprocessor
> servers, so I'm not scared of them.
> 
> Now getting AOO to build on Windows 8.1......
> 
> Patricia
> 
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Re: Building on WIndows, revisited

[Patricia Shanahan <pa...@acm.org>]

My progress got stopped by a combination of Christmas preparations, work 
towards an Apache River release, and extreme discouragement. Each time I 
solved a problem, another one cropped up, and I was not confident in all 
the decisions I had made along the way.

I expect to have more time for OO over the next few months. I think a 
clean, repeatable build process would be very useful in attracting and 
keeping developers. I have Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 installations, as 
well as a couple of Linux boxes, so along with your Windows 10 we should 
be able to cover most of the ground.

Before we get too deeply into this, I would like to understand why we 
are using a 32-bit Cygwin-based process.

On 12/30/2015 1:48 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote:
> Patricia,
>
> I've been meaning to ping you about progress on building AOO on
> Windows.
>
> As much as I don't want to go through the whole POSIX/Cygwin route
> and also find a way to use Visual Studio Express 2008 on my Windows
> 10 system (which is already dedicated to Visual Studio 2015 Community
> Edition), I think this is acute in order to find a better way to
> build native code on Windows for Windows and smooth the on-ramp for
> new developers.
>
> I am willing to do that, but I need buddies to work through it with.
> I do document and trouble-shoot well.
>
> What can we do together to get a clean, repeatable build process that
> can then be improved?
>
> - Dennis
>
>> -----Original Message----- From: Patricia Shanahan
>> [mailto:pats@acm.org] Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2015 19:45 To:
>> dev@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: Complaint Writer lost 36
>> pages of my document with no auto backup copy.
>>
>> +1
>>
>> This may be a good project for me to participate in, along with
>> people who know AOO internals. I have a lot of practical experience
>> with tracking down and fixing extremely obscure intermittent bugs
>> in operating systems and prototypes of cache coherent
>> multiprocessor servers, so I'm not scared of them.
>>
>> Now getting AOO to build on Windows 8.1......
>>
>> Patricia
>>
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>
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