[BCC AOO-Security] This information needs to be added to our build instructions to ensure that folks checking a release or working on code contributions all use the same Microsoft-supplied redistributable libraries.
I'm providing it via email as a quick heads-up. - Dennis FINDING WINDOWS REDISTRIBUTABLES In digging into an old action item to ensure that the latest versions of Microsoft Redistributables are always used in our builds of binaries for Windows, I ran across this page: <https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2977003> The latest supported Visual C++ downloads. This provides an unambiguous determination of the latest versions of redistributables to use when shipping code produced using a particular VC++ compiler. For example, we currently use the VC++ compiler that corresponds to Visual Studio 2008 (VC++ 9.0) SP1. To do a build, the "Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Service Pack 1 Redistributable Package MFC Security Update." That's a full redistributable roll-up, despite its name, reflecting the last security vulnerability that was fixed with it. Those are what should be installed in the appropriate location in a working copy of the source before building a Windows binary for Apache OpenOffice. (This assumes that the VC++ 2008 SP1 (9.0) compiler provided with the related Windows SDK is being used, as described in current build instructions.) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
