Hello, First of all, thanks a bunch for the quick and kind response. But I'd like to get some precisions if possible.
Jens-Heiner Rechtien wrote: > No. But plan for a lot of disk space for the source tree. The generated > binaries take up a lot of space. How much space?? Just to make sure I don't end up having to start again from scratch because of a space issue (and I do have a space issue, having set up a VMWare image :P). Thanks :). I finally got time to read the extra informations found at http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Windows and have been able to progress with the 'configure' script. But, it now wields an error I can not seem to get rid of: 'configure: error: mscoree.lib (.NET Framework) not found. Make sure to use you use --with-frame-home' But the 'mscoree.lib' file is in 3 different locations (which are also in my 'Path' environment variables: 1. C:\Program Files\Microsoft Platform SDK\Lib 2. C:\Program Files\Microsoft Platform SDK\Lib\IA64 3. C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\SDK\v1.1\Lib Thus, I am puzzled. I tried a couple of things, mainly fiddling around with the Environment variables path. But to no avail. Note that I do have a valid .Net Framework 1.1 installation. Any help appreciated, Thank you and Best regards, Alexandre Laforest -----Original Message----- From: Jens-Heiner Rechtien [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 08, 2006 7:24 AM To: dev@openoffice.org Subject: Re: [dev] Completely lost in the building process... Hi, Alexandre Laforest wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm starting to research OpenOffice.org possibilities and I admit being > stuck in the build process. I need to build with Windows 2000 Pro (no > comments please, ;-)), but I thought using Cygwin was mandatory (is > it?). Moreover, I must build in a VMWare image since I cannot get a VS > .NET 2003 licence for my office workstation. > > Thus, I have followed the instructions I found at: > http://tools.openoffice.org/dev_docs/build_windows_tcsh.html#BuildingaFullBuildofOpenOffice, > > but got stuck at the /Generating the Build Environment and Build Tools > /step: I can not seem to get the 'configure' script to work from a > command-line. Either DOS or Cygwin. > > Here's what I've got: > - Windows 2000 Pro SP4 > - Visual Studio .NET 2003 > - gcc 3.3.1 > - j2sdk1.4.2_11 > - Cygwin > > Consequently, a couple of questions puzzle me: > > 1. Is it possible to build OOo in a VMWare environment?? Yes. I don't know if someone recently did such a build, but it used to work. It won't help the compile time, though :-) > 2. Does the source code need to be in the same drive (partition) as > Cygwin and the compilers? No. But plan for a lot of disk space for the source tree. The generated binaries take up a lot of space. > 3. Can you actually use multiple drives? Depends. Splitting up the source tree over multiple drives is not really recommended. > 4. Am I on the right track or completely lost? The track is still in sight :-) > 5. Could someone point a proper 'how-to' if the one I've been using is > not right? Some additional notes are here: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Windows -- Jens-Heiner Rechtien OpenOffice.org Release Engineer Technical Lead Release Enginering, StarOffice [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
