On Wed, 2011-09-21 at 00:18 +0100, Alasdair Lumsden wrote: > Hi Philip, > > Many thanks for getting in touch! > > On 20 Sep 2011, at 22:28, Philip J. Robar wrote: > <snip> > > I used to do this type of thing all of the time for my group’s local server > > when I was at Sun so I can probably help*. However, when I found the source > > tar balls at LibreOffice’s site I was unmoved by the lack of documentation. > > But then, I found this site: > > http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/ — which seems to be the > > place to get stated, yes? > > Fantastic :-) Yes, LibreOffice needs work in this area - it's going to be a > bit of a nightmare to build. But that certainly looks like a good place to > start. > > > Since it already builds on numerous UNIX™ and UNIX like systems I presume > > that the port ought to be pretty straight forward. Is there anything in > > particular that I need to know about before I get started? > > LibreOffice unfortunately has a really ugly compiler/platform specific ABI: > > http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/tree/bridges/source/cpp_uno > > On Linux/BSD it expects gcc and on Solaris it expects Sun Studio. So for now > the LibreOffice developers are recommending we use Sun Studio to build it, > although they would welcome support for gcc on Solaris, but it would require > someone with assembly skills. Probably not important at the moment. > > Because LibreOffice is a fork of OpenOffice you'd think it would build out of > the box, but unfortunately the fork was done by a consortium of Linux > distributions who have taken an axe to the core of it and I can't say for > sure what issues you're likely to encounter, but they have said they will > accept patches upstream to fix build issues on other platforms. > > I'd recommend dropping by IRC if you can, to #oi-dev on irc.freenode.net - we > have someone from the LibreOffice development team in there (his nickname is > ftigeot) who knows about the build system and can offer help/pointers if > needed. There is also #libreoffice-dev > > Cheers, > > Alasdair > _______________________________________________ > oi-dev mailing list > oi-dev@openindiana.org > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev
Awesome! Be great to have LibreOffice on OI, if only to snub Oracle :-P Last I poked around, the jury was still out on LibreOffice vs. Apache's incarnation of OpenOffice as preferred office suite on OI. But I've been being a fun hog and away from the 'puter for much of the summer - has OI subsequently developed a consensus? -- Regards-- Ken Gunderson _______________________________________________ oi-dev mailing list oi-dev@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev
