On 26/02/2011 06:18, bnrent swsansons wrote: > Hello there, > I made a post on the user forums about this topic but hopefully you can give > quicker assistance. > > I'm attempting to get everything together to make programming contributions > to OOO. However, during the configuration process on this instructional: > http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wik ... with_MinGW
please note that the MinGW port is still AFAIK somewhat experimental. but building on windows is painful in any case :) > I'm using the 2nd configuration sample and the error I get is as follows in > the configuration script: > > checking for GNU make > configure:5059: result: make > configure:5067: checking the GNU make version > configure:5084: error: failed (make 3.81 need 3.79.1+) > > I've tried to look through files to see if it requires the 3.79.1 GNU version > to be used so i could substitute 3.81 but no luck. actually the latest DEV300 milestones require at least 3.81. i guess you're trying to build something older? if you want to hack on OOo, you should use the latest DEV300 milestone. see the "Getting the source" page on the building guide. > Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > Another problem i had was with the instmsiA & W.exe files. It says that the > OS version is wrong. What should be placed in the $src_root/external/msi > then?? sorry, no idea. > Thanks a lot, > Brent -- "So XEmacs has never been a particularly good tool for serious Emacs users because even though it's written in C, it crashes like a mature C++ application." -- Steve Yegge -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] with Subject: help
