----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephan Bergmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: openoffice.dev To: <dev@openoffice.org> Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2007 9:57 PM Subject: [dev] Windows: Help needed
> Hi all, > > I am currently fiddling around with an OOo installation set from which > the URE has been extracted, see > <http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/ODF_Toolkit/Efforts/OOo_without_URE> > > for details. > > On Unix/ELF, this already works reasonably well. I need a single > symbolic link from the base directory of the OOo-wo-URE installation to > the base directory of the URE installation. All the places where things > in OOo-wo-URE need to access things in URE are routed over this link: > > - Executables and shared libraries in OOo-wo-URE find shared libraries > in URE they depend on via an RPATH (recorded in those executables and > shared libraries) that includes the link to the URE. > > - The deployment variables URE_BIN_DIR (used in all other places in the > code where things in URE need to be accessed) and URE_BOOTSTRAP > (pointing at a fundamentalrc in OOo-wo-URE that contains essential > deployment variables to adapt the URE to the needs of OOo) are set in > the shell scripts soffice and unopkg (which should cover, via > indirections, most if not all of the executables that constitute the > "interface of OOo," see > <http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=dev&msgNo=19840>). > > However, I have problems imagining how I can do something similar on > Windows: > > - An installed URE already announces its location in the Windows > registry at HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Software\OpenOffice.org\URE. But, even if > all the code that needs to know this value can read it (e.g., we > introduce additional syntax so that the URE_BIN_DIR deployment variable > can be set to something like > "${registry:HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/Software/OpenOffice.org/URE:Path}"), one > ugly problem would remain: It would not be easy at all to install two > different pairs of URE and OOo-wo-URE on the same machine (which is of > utmost importance at least for developers, and somewhat easily solved in > the Unix scenario above---all you have to do is adjust the one symbolic > link per installed URE/OOo-wo-URE pair). if we can add variable URE_VERSION(e.g. 1.1 ,1.2) so that the URE_BIN_DIR deployment variable can be set to something like "${registry:HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/Software/OpenOffice.org/URE/1.1:Path}" and different ooo use the different version ure. > - Assuming that OOo-wo-URE does know where the URE is located, how can > executables and DLLs in OOo-wo-URE access the DLLs in URE they depend > on? Extend the PATH? DLL hooks Hennes is currently working on (would > that scale)? > > - Are there any clever places to set the URE_BOOTSTRAP deployment > variable so that all executables in the "interface of OOo" are > guaranteed to have it set (for themselves and any other processes they > spawn, i.e., ideally as an environment variable)? The last resort would > be to make sure that next to each such executable named foo there is a > foo.ini that contains a definition for URE_BOOTSTRAP. > > Input more than welcome, > -Stephan > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
