Hi,
Our current documentation about building AOO on Windows [1] (legacy one
[2]) references JDK 1.6 and Visual Studio 2008 Express as needed
software tools in order to build AOO on Windows. You might know that
these are no longer officially available for Windows.
Thus, I decided to work on a Windows build environment _without_ Visual
Studio 2008 and _with_ JDK 1.7. I managed to build current trunk on a
Windows 7 64bit HomePremium system using Java 7 (JDK 1.7) and without an
installed Visual Studio instance.
The problems which I need to solve on my way to the installation set were:
(1) New version 2.7.1-1 of cygwin tool 'patch'.
Version 2.7.1-1 now takes line endings in the patch file and in the file
to be patch serious. Thus, the application of a patch fails when the
line endings are different.
Solution is to tweak the calling of the cygwin tool 'patch'.
(2) Building module accessibility.
In accessibility/bridge/source/java/ 'javah' is used to create a C
header file from a Java class. This does not work with JDK 1.7 as the
classpath does not contain the needed references to our UNO-API Java
classes.
Solution is to adjust the classpath for this 'javah' call.
There are issues 121690 [3] and 121754 [4] regarding building with Java
7 (JDK 1.7) and HSQLDB. I think these issues are the duplicates of each
other [please, can one of the people involved in these issues - e.g.
Fred, Ariel or Andrea confirm this? Thx in advance]. As far as I
understood these issues are solved. Please correct me, if I am wrong.
My build was not hit by any build problem regarding modules hsqldb and
connectivity.
The installation of my build successfully passes the so-called smoketest
- open document /main/smoketestdoc/[platform]/bin/smoketestdoc.sxw and
hit start button.
On a Windows system with JRE 6 the installation of my build does not
recognize installed JRE 6 as an Java runtime environment (Menu - Tools -
Option - Java). This is no problem from my point of view as our Windows
users should not have JRE 6 installed anymore on their systems due to
its security risks. Does somebody contradicts?
I will soon update our documentation [1] in order to enable newcomers to
build AOO under Windows.
I will also update the reference to the Windows SDK, because for
building without stlport on Windows the SP1 of the corresponding Windows
SDK is needed - see issue 122500 [5].
[1]
http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Building_Guide_AOO/Building_on_Windows
[2]
http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Building_Guide/Building_on_Windows
[3] https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=121690
[4] https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=121754
[5] https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=122500
Best regards, Oliver.
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