[dev] Re: Problem with building glib on Windows

2011-05-16 Thread Tor Lillqvist
cd ./wntmsci12/misc/build/glib-2.28.1/ nmake -f makefile.msc /usr/bin/cp glib/glibconfig.h.win32 glib/glibconfig.h But 'glib/glibconfig.h.win32' and'glib/glibconfig.h' really exist. Yeah, but /usr/bin/cp is hardly understandable to nmake. --tml --

[dev] DLL rebasing in OOo on Windows

2011-05-12 Thread Tor Lillqvist
Hi, Is there any public discussion or documentation on the rebasing done at various stages in OOo? When building, in postprocess each DLL is rebased so that they have unique base addresses, and don't overlap if loaded at these addresses. But then in an installer custom action this is reverted

Re: [dev] EducOOo donated code for ARM Linux port

2011-02-19 Thread Tor Lillqvist
EducOOo donated code for ARM Linux port makes it sound you did the port. Me, I didn't understand if EducOOo is the subject or object here... (And with issuezilla being down, I couldn't check the link either.) Was it donated to EducOOo, or did EducOOo donate it to somebody else? And what does

Re: [dev] Debug output

2010-10-26 Thread Tor Lillqvist
Windows suppresses stdio in GUI programs. You can change that after having built soffice.bin (and soffice.exe): editbin /subsystem:console \path\to\executable then you will get a console window always opened for the executable in question, and any output written to stdout will be visible

Re: [dev] Does MS Office Binary File Formats Spec. help improve the binary filter?

2010-07-13 Thread Tor Lillqvist
What I was trying to say is that I recall something very similar to this happening a while back and the company cried foul when the open source software used their proprietory code and used it as an excuse to lambast open source in general. So basically, just hearsay? --tml

Re: [dev] Prebuilt Mozilla DLLs on tools.openoffice.org differ from those in the installer

2010-07-01 Thread Tor Lillqvist
So if you say that in an OOo installed from a downloaded installer, there are *Mozilla* libs (*not* OOo libs!) which are linked against msvcr90.dll, I'd b somewhat surprised. Do you have an example? Sure. For instance nspr4.dll and nss3.dll in an OOo installed from

Re: [dev] Prebuilt Mozilla DLLs on tools.openoffice.org differ from those in the installer

2010-07-01 Thread Tor Lillqvist
This is (should be) completely transparent, i.e. if you download the prebuilts used from tools.openoffice.org, and use them in your build, but also build the nss module (there's a configure switch to disable it, IIRC), then the libs from the latter replace the libs from the former. So, in an

[dev] Re: resume build

2010-06-30 Thread Tor Lillqvist
i don't know much about ntfs, but maybe it has a different concept of permissions than ordinary unix filesystems? Of course, completely different, based on arbitrarily long ACLs and not POSIX rwxrwxrwx bits. Mounting a NTFS volume on a Unix machine means these ACLs must then be somehow

[dev] Prebuilt Mozilla DLLs on tools.openoffice.org differ from those in the installer

2010-06-30 Thread Tor Lillqvist
I noticed that the prebuilt Mozilla DLLs in the http://tools.openoffice.org/moz_prebuild/OOo3.2/WNTMSCIruntime.zip file (linked from the http://tools.openoffice.org/moz_prebuild/OOo3.2/ page) differ from the ones included with the OOo_3.2.1_Win_x86_install_en-US.exe installer. Especially, the

[dev] RE: Issues building under windows xp: patch

2010-06-29 Thread Tor Lillqvist
It looks like I forgot to attach the patch. No problem, using the patch would be prohibited anyway, it seems: Any reproduction of this e-mail by whatsoever means and any transmission or dissemination thereof to other persons is prohibited. Which to me seems to say that any code

Re: [dev] Build error in helpcontent2 (Lucene)

2010-06-24 Thread Tor Lillqvist
Microsoft Patch More like Windows Installer (MSI) Patch, but yeah, means the same thing basically anyway. As no one else is building them it's basically a Sun-only problem We (Novell) have been trying to use MSI patching, with occasional success even, for longer than Sun. But it has

Re: [dev] New build system

2010-05-11 Thread Tor Lillqvist
On 2010-05-11 at 11:12, annu...@yandex.ru wrote: Also, with Autotools Excuse me, but where in mba's mail did you see autotools mentioned? Calm down. --tml - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For

Re: [dev] Not so free version of Openoffice

2010-04-14 Thread Tor Lillqvist
Is somebody trying to earn money by distributing Openoffice without the consentment of SunMicrosystems? Nothing in the license prohibits that, as far as I know. Sure, it is unethical. --tml - To unsubscribe, e-mail:

[dev] RE: Passwords

2010-04-12 Thread Tor Lillqvist
I cannot remember or find the password I used to secure my documents. Even if there was a solution, how could we know that it is *your* documents that you are trying to open? --tml - To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Re: [dev] Debug the Calc Source Code

2010-04-06 Thread Tor Lillqvist
I am using Cygwin on Windows to compile Yeah, but the actual compiler you are using is Microsoft's Visual Studio 2008 surely. If you didn't know this, I am a bit surprised that you managed to build OOo. (Don't be mislead by the Visual Studio name; that is the name of the whole product,

Re: [dev] why not add neural network to openoffice

2010-03-22 Thread Tor Lillqvist
i have a project,that's based on mnetlib(http://code.google.com/p/mnetlib/),tha'ts a good libraryto use this library predict for any thing, for example:finacial, forest Pests, earthquick , and so on, Sounds interesting. Please give us some examples of its predictions! --tml

Re: [dev] Build fails with Cygwin 1.7.1

2010-01-11 Thread Tor Lillqvist
Or maybe someone already has a solution for this? This helped me: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/ooo-build/ooo-build/tree/patches/dev300/win32-cygwin-1.7.diff , and its log http://cgit.freedesktop.org/ooo-build/ooo-build/log/patches/dev300/win32-cygwin-1.7.diff I don't run a bleeding edge

Re: [dev] OpenOffice IDE

2010-01-10 Thread Tor Lillqvist
what IDE can be used to open OpenOffice sources as a single project (is this generally possible?) Well, I guess anything is possible with enough resources thrown at it, but I am fairly certain nobody is doing that. In fact, I don't think anybody uses an IDE to manage even a small part of the

Re: [dev] How can I build source code using VS 2008

2009-12-03 Thread Tor Lillqvist
this is a very good entry point: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Building_Guide/Building_on_Windows And if the original poster wanted to build inside Visual Studio (in its IDE), that is not possible. (It works fine to debug in the VS IDE, though.) --tml

Re: [dev] build verbosity

2009-10-23 Thread Tor Lillqvist
you'recertainly quicker with dmake verbose=true than with export VERBOSE=TRUE ; dmake ; export VERBOSE=. However, VERBOSE=TRUE dmake is as quick;) --tml - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For

Re: [dev] Re: Consolidating build instructions for the community

2009-07-17 Thread Tor Lillqvist
2. Is OOo completely buildable on Visual Studio 2008 or do we still need this note? It sounds as if you might be confusing Visual Studio the IDE with Visual Studio the product (which includes a C and C++ compiler and an IDE, and various other stuff, depending on edition) here. OOo is not

Re: [dev] Re: Consolidating build instructions for the community

2009-07-17 Thread Tor Lillqvist
I like to learn more about debugging OOo with the VS IDE. Can you point me to a guide or provide a guide in the Wiki? I don't know if there is a guide. I figured it out myself, it isn't really that hard. - build the parts of OOo you are interested in debugging with debug=true, and copy the

Re: [dev] Document file lock system could be enhanced

2009-06-05 Thread Tor Lillqvist
What we can learn from the scenario above: That the company in question doesn't have a proper document management process (workflow)? --tml - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands,

Re: [dev] Please fix these security flaws that could be considered bugs ...

2009-04-20 Thread Tor Lillqvist
When I let other people use my computer, I rarely make a separate account for them (this is not a bad idea, though). I usually let them use my computer from my own administrator account... You probably don't realize that you just lost all credibility, do you? --tml

Re: [dev] Sections and appending documents

2009-03-05 Thread Tor Lillqvist
On 2009-03-05 at 02:15, grover.b...@gmail.com wrote: file:/// + tempDoc That is very wrong. Use whatever proper API that I am sure Java provides to construct a file: URI from a file name. --tml - To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Re: [dev] Detailed build deps

2009-02-12 Thread Tor Lillqvist
This kind of information enables system developers/integrators to make more informed choices. Are you a system developer/integrator yourself? For some entirely new Linux distro with an entirely new package format, or other platform for which there exist no OOo build earlier? If no, then just

Re: [dev] How to debug in Visual C++ 2008?

2008-12-19 Thread Tor Lillqvist
This is what I do. Other people might have different style of working. The instructions you quote seem to miss this point (or maybe you just didn't quote it, but I will mention it anyway): 0) source the winenv.set.sh file in the top-level build directory. I.e. cd there and give the command: .

Re: [dev] Who can closes an issue[ was: Fwd: [l10n-dev] Spanish version : issue in OLH

2008-11-26 Thread Tor Lillqvist
Sorry for duplicate myself but what do you think about this proposal? * trac to IssueZilla! Not likely to happen, even if it would bring benefits, which I am not at all sure of. --tml - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: [dev] Stderr in OOo Windows?

2008-11-04 Thread Tor Lillqvist
One can run soffice.exe from the Command Prompt like this: \...\soffice.exe 21 | more and see all kinds of debugging output (well, at least if parts of OOo have been built with debug=true). Yes, that Unix-like syntax actually does work in cmd.exe, too. The stdout and stderr can also be

Re: [dev] Stderr in OOo Windows?

2008-11-04 Thread Tor Lillqvist
You've got definitely too many dots here. The ... was supposed to be just a placeholder for the actual path;) Sorry for not making it clearer... --tml - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands,

Re: [dev] Debug Step Through Source Code of OpenOffice 3.0.0 viaVisual Studio C++ 2003 / 2005

2008-09-01 Thread Tor Lillqvist
Is it possible to Debug and step through the source code of OpenOffice 3.0.0 (BEB300_m3) , using Visual Studio C++ 2003 /2005 ? yes, please have a look here: Except that one is supposed to use the compiler from Visual Studio 2008 (possibly the Express version) to build current OOo versions for

Re: [dev] OOo 3 new features and performance speedup

2008-08-28 Thread Tor Lillqvist
IMHO, checking DNS or connecting to Internet at start is not a good thing to do. Users can do that later for they want to check for version update, cliparts or something. I think the DNS lookups occur because it (unintentionally?) looks up the machine's name from DNS, or something like

Re: [dev] scp2 PATCH flags for OOo 3.0.1

2008-08-25 Thread Tor Lillqvist
Well, if that is acceptable, then why not use makepatchrpm/makedeltarpm on *nix? Isn't that what Linux distros do already (at least, those who have some delta RPM -style mechanism) when they release slightly updated packages of some specific version of OOo? Is this PATCH keyword relevant

Re: [dev] how to disable copy permission

2008-08-08 Thread Tor Lillqvist
I have to disable copy option in open office document when user doesn't has copy permission. and it is apply to specified document only. That is utterly pointless. Surely only the most naïve of users would be stopped by such a measure. If somebody can read a document that is a normal file,

Re: [dev] eight common crash issues in OOo2.4.1 framework(writer simpress spreadsheet )

2008-08-04 Thread Tor Lillqvist
Is it really useful to mail lists of one's pet issues to this mailing list? --tml - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [dev] eight common crash issues in OOo2.4.1framework(writer simpress spreadsheet )

2008-08-04 Thread Tor Lillqvist
IMHO,the list can make it easy to found the issues . But when new issues are submitted, as far as I know, mail is automatically sent to an appropriate mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) and to the initial assignee of the issue. And they are periodically posted on planet.go-oo.org. And there is

Re: [dev] building and using cairo

2008-07-07 Thread Tor Lillqvist
The new external module cairo recently included in OOo source tree. I wanted to build and use it in Windows .NET 2008 Express environment as a referece for MinGW porting. Using cairo on Windows is more or less pointless now in my opinion, as the DirectX canvas is included and built by

Re: [dev] customizing oo 2.4.1 ... - disable automatic update / skip registration/ ...

2008-07-07 Thread Tor Lillqvist
is there a way to customize oo 2.4.1, so Yes. It is called go-oo.org. --tml - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [dev] Integrate latest of xmlfilter in openoffice 2.4.x

2008-06-17 Thread Tor Lillqvist
I'm currently using the Novell odf converter 1.1 but it's slow and not working well. You presumably mean odf-converter. It is not Novell's in any real sense. Novell provides it (as an RPM package tio be used with OO.o on our SUSE Linux, and as an a .oxt OO.o extension for our Windows build

Re: [dev] Portable + PE + unattended version for OpenOffice

2008-04-25 Thread Tor Lillqvist
Bart's PE Builder helps you build a BartPE (Bart Preinstalled Environment) bootable Windows CD-Rom or DVD from the original Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 installation/setup CD, very suitable for PC maintenance tasks. I hope people who do this also have the appropriate licenses to

Re: [dev] developing with Windows

2008-03-28 Thread Tor Lillqvist
with the UNO C++ API you can Write Once, Build Anywhere Assuming you have access to a (cross-) toolchain for that elusive Anywhere architecture that your potential customer uses, of course. And, assuming you managed to keep your C++ clean enough that the Anywhere compiler accepts it, that you

Re: [dev] developing with Windows

2008-03-28 Thread Tor Lillqvist
Also I am using dev-c++(gcc.) Don't. I have never heard of any serious developer using dev-c++. Plain makefiles, a separate editor, possibly GNU autotools etc, yes. (But no auto* are involved in the OOo context.) Unfortunately, for Windows, the only supported compiler one can use for OOo

Re: [dev] developing with Windows

2008-03-28 Thread Tor Lillqvist
and you can compile using the SDK environment anywhere the SDK is ported and working. Assuming you have access to such a machine, that is. That was my main point. With Java, Python or (I assume) Basic the extension you produce doesn't need to be rebuilt for each client platform. once

Re: [dev] Running without installing

2008-01-31 Thread Tor Lillqvist
You'll get a full Office installation directly located at instsetoo_native/wnt/OpenOffice/installed/install/your languages Unfortunately some of the pathnames under that install folder are so extremely verbose and redundant, that for a very reasonable build tree root

Re: [dev] Running without installing

2008-01-31 Thread Tor Lillqvist
If one clicks yes, does that mean one doesn't want to continue startup at all Sorry, that doesn't make sense, I now notice. Must be too late... The yes answer isn't ambiguous at all I would say. --tml - To unsubscribe,

Re: [dev] Probable GPL violations - Butler Office Pro

2008-01-21 Thread Tor Lillqvist
Even so, they could not claim ownership of code developed by individuals who were not compensated. Compensation has little or no relevance here. Only code submitted by contributors who has signed the Joint Copyright Assignment contract is accepted into the upstream OpenOffice.org codebase.

Re: [dev] svx/intro building leads to error on Windows

2007-10-13 Thread Tor Lillqvist
Error: cannot create short name of OxygenOffice Professional Team This is just a wild guess, but have you perhaps turned off short file name generation for the NTFS volume in question? --tml - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: [dev] Re: UNOPKG and extension deployment

2007-10-12 Thread Tor Lillqvist
Apparently my previous message in this thread on 2007-10-04 was too complicated and asked too many questions as nobody followed up on it, so I'll ask just one specific question at a time then... Do I understand the specification correctly, it is possible to specify platform requirements only

Re: [dev] Re: UNOPKG and extension deployment

2007-10-11 Thread Tor Lillqvist
http://api.openoffice.org/docs/DevelopersGuide/Extensions/Extensions.xhtml#1_7_Dependencies: Hmm, so could I have an example of how to specify a dependency on a feature present only in some FooBar version of OOo? Btw, do I read the referred-to section of the specification correctly, that

Re: [dev] Proposed Thread / Process Lifecycle

2007-09-28 Thread Tor Lillqvist
. AFAIK, the static destructors of objects in shared libraries are called by atexit functions, arent they ? The semantics of functions registered with atexit() when dynamically loaded shared libraries are involved is completely system-dependent and a big mess. atexit() is close to unusable

Re: [dev] Build problem with --enable-cairo

2007-09-24 Thread Tor Lillqvist
Is it possible to build OpenOffice.org 2.3 with --enable-cairo in configure? I think that on Linux one is supposed to use the system cairo, not one built as part of OOo. --enable-cairo works on Windows, though. --tml - To

Re: [dev] portable OOo

2007-03-29 Thread Tor Lillqvist
I am wondering if the portable Openoffice delongs to OOo community. and does it have multiple language versions available now? With portable OpenOffice.org, I assume you mean the build of OpenOffice.org for Windows that is downloadable from portableapps.com? (Because if you meant

Re: [dev] Latest compiling win32 build

2007-03-26 Thread Tor Lillqvist
I'd like to build under win32, I successfully got a build going a couple of years ago, but I haven't touched it since then, now I'd like to get back on it, so if anyone knows what's the number of a build that anyone has managed to successfully build, All milestones build on Win32 as far as

Re: [dev] issue about special characters in file name

2007-03-23 Thread Tor Lillqvist
Pathnames in Windows are in Unicode (UTF-16). Command line arguments are byte strings. Actually, in NT-based Windows, all the internal stuff goes on in UTF-16. The (multi-)byte string (ANSI, i.e. system codepage) APIs are just wrappers around the wide-char (UTF-16) string APIs. Also, note that

Re: [dev] Keyboard shortcuts for common diacritics

2006-11-14 Thread Tor Lillqvist
ti 2006-11-14 klockan 10:38 +0100 skrev Thomas Lavergne: I am Thomas and use OpenOffice at home and at my work place with a classic, 104-key PC US Keyboard. I sometimes write documents in French (my native language) and it is a pain in the neck to use accents because I need to open the

Re: [dev] The QuickStarter Spec.

2006-11-01 Thread Tor Lillqvist
on 2006-11-01 klockan 07:50 -0500 skrev G. Roderick Singleton: I think that you should read system as session. [...] This would mean that system is the wrong word but its use is likely harmless as *NIX users will not likely care and windows users are already familiar with the nomenclature.

Re: [dev] Port for Visual Studio 2005 Express (free compiler) available

2006-09-26 Thread Tor Lillqvist
ti 2006-09-26 klockan 00:56 -0400 skrev Volker Quetschke: You have to use --disable-activex or the build will fail at one point. Is that the --disable-activex from CWS tml04 (which I have largely been ignoring working on, it needs to be resynced to a current milestone etc) (the same stuff

Re: [dev] Port for Visual Studio 2005 Express (free compiler) available

2006-09-26 Thread Tor Lillqvist
ti 2006-09-26 klockan 09:31 -0400 skrev Volker Quetschke: Quite a few things would have to be changed in that CWS (read my comment there) Yes, thanks. If that switch is not enough to solve your tml04 problem we should add another --disable-someOle or so to disable the missing pieces.

Re: [dev] Port for Visual Studio 2005 Express (free compiler) available

2006-09-26 Thread Tor Lillqvist
ti 2006-09-26 klockan 10:17 +0200 skrev Oliver Bolte: I've reused the NETTOOLKIT environment variable (in the past it was used for .NET Toolkit 2003 which wasn't usable for OOo). I've removed this variable from other makefiles and with m186 it controls activex only. Isn't that kinda

Re: [dev] Announcement: OpenOffice.org Premium 2.0.3 has released

2006-09-22 Thread Tor Lillqvist
But map of the country India is not proper. It shows part of kashmir cutoff from India. Hmm, and if this is fixed, then we will have people from Pakistan screaming that OO.o is illegal because part of their country is cut off the map? See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kashmir . There simply is

[dev] Windows Installer patches and upgrades

2006-09-18 Thread Tor Lillqvist
Hi, I have been looking into what modifications would be required to be able to use the Windows Installer (MSI) patch and upgrade mechanisms for upgrading OO.o installations. (Either just security or bugfix -type patches that affect just a few files, or if feasible, why not also upgrades like