Hello,

On Wed, Jul 13, 2022 at 08:32:29AM +0200, Peter Kovacs wrote:

> Hello Kelly,
> 
> Am 12.07.22 um 04:23 schrieb Kelly Hodis:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > The oowintool Perl script inside of /openoffice/main is looking for early 
> > Visual Studio versions not present on my machine. I have Visual Studio 10, 
> > 12, and 14. For those of you building on Windows without the earlier Visual 
> > Studio versions, what did you do for this step? What is the reason the 
> > script doesn't look for newer versions?
> 
> We still support Windows XP as a target. I am not sure which SDK is the
> latest one that does this. But I remember that Arrigo run into trouble
> trying to build with a newer SDK. Something with Linker path is user
> differently in the perl scripts. But I am not sure anymore.

Yes, oowintool looks for the only supported versions of Visual Studio.

Newer versions are not compatible with our build system. There is a
conflict of environment variables.

FWIW, Windows 10 remains capable of running all the necessary software
to build OpenOffice.

I hope this helps.
-- 
Arrigo

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