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== '''Prerequisites''' ==
 
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This document was derived from the description of the X11 build thanksworthy provided by Eric Hoch in this document: [[MacOSXBuildInstructions]].
 
  
 
'''Here we would like to outline the things you need to build the Aqua Version''' (besides the OS).  
 
'''Here we would like to outline the things you need to build the Aqua Version''' (besides the OS).  

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Prerequisites

Here we would like to outline the things you need to build the Aqua Version (besides the OS).

Mandatory Requirements

  • Mac OS X version 10.4 (aka Tiger) or later (if using 10.5 aka Leopard, have a look at User:Dyrcona/LeopardBuild#flex
  • For Mac OS X 10.7 (aka Lion), XCode 3.2.6 need be installed.
  • XCode version 2.4.1 or later. If you want to use a newer version than the one that is shipped with your Mac OS X installation media, you need to register at the Apple Developer Connection site (free of charge) to be able to download it. On Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard), make sure to include the optional 10.4 SDK.

Notes on Java: The Aqua version of OpenOffice.org does not build yet using Java SDK 1.6.0. If you didn't configure Mac OS X for a 1.6, you don't need to do anything - the default (1.5) is OK. To change the default Java version go to Applications/Utilities/Java and modify accordingly

Of course patches to make it build with 1.6 are very welcome :-) Feel free to submit your patches to the mac@porting mailing list or file issues.

Recommended tools

  • ccache

If you intend to build OpenOffice.org several times, you probably can benefit of ccache since it will speed up your future builds. The first time you make a build with ccache you won't notice it, but the next time the build will go up to five times faster.

You can install it using Fink. It is simply named "ccache". For MacPorts users the package is called "ccache".

If you don't use fink, you can download and build it yourself using the source provided at http://ccache.samba.org/

There are two ways to enable ccache - one is to set environment variables, the other way is to use symlinks.

Using environment variables: 

export CC="ccache gcc"
export CXX="ccache g++"

Using the symlink approach: 

# create a directory for the links 
mkdir ~/bin
# create the symlinks pointing to ccache with the name of the compiler
ln -s /path/to/ccache ~/bin/gcc
ln -s /path/to/ccache ~/bin/g++
ln -s /path/to/ccache ~/bin/cc
ln -s /path/to/ccache ~/bin/c++
# no all you need to enable ccache is to prepend ~/bin to your PATH
$ export PATH=~/bin:$PATH

for both methody, you can add the "export ..." lines to your ~/.profile - that way you don't need to manually set it when building. You can still temporarily disable ccache (export CCACHE_DISABLE=1) in case you don't want to use it.

Since OOo is rather huge, you should increase the cache-size to 1 GB or more 

ccache -M 1G
  • subversion version 1.5.4 or later

Since OOo's source code is managed using Subversion currently, you also need the svn client to checkout sources (otherwise you would be bount to source-tarballs that aren't generated that frequently). You can either compile yourself or use the subversion universal binaries from the subversion project Version 1.5.4 or later is required because of important fixes related to the merge-feature.

Get the source and prepare to build it...

Get the source from HG:

You need about 3GB for a checkout from the HG repository: The full source itself has about 1.6GB and HG needs another 1.5GB. Building the source requires another 5GB.

  • check out the latest source from HG

hg clone http://hg.services.openoffice.org/DEV300/ ooo_source

Get the source from SVN:

The instructions below are for the current milestone "m46" of the master workspace "DEV300"

You need about 3.2GB for a checkout from the SVN repository: The full source itself has about 1.6GB and SVN doubles that by its internal copy. Building the source requires another 5GB.
The directory name should not contain any spaces, otherwise building it might be troublesome.

  • check out a milestone from SVN (if the milestone is older than DEV300_m63 and newer than DEV300_m31)
svn checkout svn://svn.services.openoffice.org/ooo/tags/DEV300_m46

svn checkout svn://svn.services.openoffice.org/ooo/cws/CWSNAME
  • checking out milestones or ChildWorkSpaces from CVS (if they are older than DEV300_m32)

Have a look at the SVN for OOo documentation for more details, e.g. if you want to do complex tasks like merging several CWS into a single build

Additional dependencies for current milestone builds

prebuilt Mozilla archives (based on seamonkey1.1.13)

To enable the use of macros (disabled by default for security reasons), you'll have to put the prebuilt archives of mozilla binaries in moz/zipped directory after renaming them properly.

Note: archives are Intel only for now. UB will be proposed later


=> FIRST : apply the following patch to your tree : patch for moz2seamonkey zipped archives (else, you'll have a breakage in connectivity) 



cp moz2seamonkey_connectivity.diff   DEV300_m46
cd DEV300_m46

Fake the patch application :
 
patch --dry-run -p0 < moz2seamonkey_connectivity.diff

And if nothing wrong occurs, apply it for true :

patch -p0 < moz2seamonkey_connectivity.diff


Archives to be downloaded :

http://eric.bachard.free.fr/mac/moz/seamonkey_Intel/MACOSXGCCIinc.zip

http://eric.bachard.free.fr/mac/moz/seamonkey_Intel/MACOSXGCCIlib.zip

http://eric.bachard.free.fr/mac/moz/seamonkey_Intel/MACOSXGCCIruntime.zip

or from

One-Time preparations and scripts

Work in progress: since DEV300_m42, config_office no longer exist, and what follows needs update, or might contain error(s)

OpenOffice.org's build environment is configured using the popular open-source configuration-management package 'autoconf'. So you can do your beloved './configure' command, is now done in the ROOt source directory. To save the configure parameters and use them with different milestones I used to link-in my shellscript to fire up the ./configure line.

My directory-structure looks like this: 

bin/
DEV300_m42/ 
DEV300_m40/
DEV300_m0/
SRC680_m248/
...

Now I go to the ROOT sources subdir and link in my startscript: 

cd DEV300_m46

Create 'build.sh' (to be written) :

Note: excepted important changes in configure, this has to be done once only. 

#!/bin/sh
export BASE=`pwd`
export OOVERSION=`echo $BASE|sed 's/^\/.*\///'`
echo Building from     : $BASE
echo OpenOffice Version: $OOVERSION
./configure \
--with-lang="en-US de fr" \
--disable-odk \
--disable-pasf \
--disable-gtk \
--disable-headless \
--disable-build-mozilla \
--with-build-version=$OOVERSION-`date +%d-%m-%y` \
--disable-fontconfig \
--without-nas \
--with-jdk-home=/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Home \
--with-stlport=no \
--disable-mediawiki \
--enable-werror \
--disable-vba

Put this script into ~/bin and make sure it is executable : 

chmod ug+x ~/bin/build.sh

Note :

--disable-vba since CWS sb87   (was building by chance only)

--disable-mediawiki because ant version requirement to build the swext is now 1.7.0

--disable-neon has been removed since m217   resync. See Issue 78206 --disable-neon breaks aqua build

--disable-odk : disables SDK build, and will avoid you to download some windows dll which is not needed for aqua-build.

--disable-pasf : pasf stands for Portable Audio System file. As we want to use system library rather than portable ones, we disabled this. However, at this time not all functionality will be available with pasf disabled. You might willing to use --with-pasf if you want working audio in your build.

--without-nas : nas stands for Network Audio System, it uses X11, if you want to use it in your build, just remove this flag. You will need to install the X11 package provided in your CDs/DVD Mac OS X installation. X11 SDK from xCode tools is not required for build this.

--disable-build-mozilla: will disable the mozilla build (in the moz module), but mozilla pre-built archives will be used instead (they are mandatory to enable the macro security configuration dialog (see Issue 79885 ).

--enable-dbgutil: add this option to enable assertions and other functionality useful for debugging

--with-jdk-home must be set as above with XCode 3.0

--with-stlport=no uses Apple's built-in STL, but will cause some warnings

We used the bash shell in all example, since to our belief users of the C-shell are smart enough to figure out the differences anyway. If you want to dig deeper into the build process, please have a look at the description OpenOffice.org's Build Environment.

Doing the build (about 4,5 GB)

Fine, now we have a (hopefully) working 'build.sh' in the ROOT sources dir. We need to run it beforehand: 


cd DEV300_m46

link the existing build.sh with the current milestone : 

ln -s ../bin/build.sh ./build.sh

Run it to complete the configure step : 

./build.sh

This will setup the necessary includefiles and create a couple of files in the parent directory (bootstrap, MacOSXPPCEnv.Set.sh, MacOSXPPCEnv.Set). If you are using the sh, ksh or bash you only need to take care for 'MacOSXPPCEnv.Set.sh'.

Now we need to get back to our base-directory, run the bootstrap script, source our Enviroment (MacOSXPPCEnv.Set.sh) and finally start the build-process:

On Mac Intel

./bootstrap
source MacOSXX86Env.Set.sh
cd instsetoo_native
export TMP=/tmp
export SYSTEM_OPENSSL=YES

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build --all -P4 --dlv_switch -link --dontgraboutput

or

build --all -P4

if you run into trouble with --dlv_switch (see: Issue 77360 )

On PowerPC

./bootstrap
source MacOSXPPCEnv.Set.sh
cd instsetoo_native
export TMP=/tmp
export SYSTEM_OPENSSL=YES

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build --all -P2 --dlv_switch -link --dontgraboutput

or

build --all -P2
Comments on above

if you run into trouble with --dlv_switch (see: Issue 77360 )

The main purpose of the bootstrap script is to build (if necessary) the dmake utility used. Dmake once was a unix make-clone made by wticorp but got incorporated into OpenOffice since it was orphaned. For more information about dmake, it's history and manpage have a look here: http://tools.openoffice.org/dmake/index.html

Sourcing MacOSXPPCEnv.Set.sh is very important not only for building but also for running svdem later on. Here all the Environment-Variables for the Build will be set up. For a detailed description see Environment_Variables. Please note that on Intel machines, 'MacOSXPPCEnv.Set.sh' should be substituted with 'MacOSXX86Env.Set.sh'.

This Build process takes on my box (Dual 1.8 GHz G5, 1.5GB RAM) roughly 10 hours, and 3 to 6 hours on Mac Intel (3:30h on a 2GHz DualCore INTEL iMac). Be patient.

If you want to see how the progress on that build is you can use two build options to get a comfortable view: 

build ... <see above> ... --html --html_path /Users/$USER/Sites

where $USER is your user name. Then you can load in Firefox (not Safari!) the HTML file unxmacxi.pro.build.html via the in Mac OS X included Apache web server or diretctly form the directory /Users/$USER/Sites/. This file is automatically being updated and is showing the status of the build and also the time needed since the build started.

If you build on Snow Leopard (aka Mac OS X 10.6): Set DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES to point to the correct libsqlite3.dylib: 

DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES=/usr/lib/libsqlite3.dylib

Installing, preparing and running OpenOffice.org

Find the Bundle

Once the build completed, the final product ( en-US version ) is named : OOo_3.0.0_*_MacOSXIntel_install.dmg ( for version 3.0beta e.g.)

And is located in instsetoo_native/unxmacxi.pro/OpenOffice/dmg/install/en-US directory ( replace en-US with your locale )

Bundle Location3.0beta.jpg

Install the new Build

  • double click on the *.dmg icon
  • drag the OpenOffice.org icon into a folder of your choice

Run the new Build

  • double click the application icon in that folder

Screenshots

Now you can start to work with this amazing productivity suite.

Contribute by finding, isolating, debugging or solving issues

Isolate a problem

Reduce a problem

  • make a problem reproducable
  • reduce it to a test case that is as small and simple as possible
  • if a problem is specific to a document then please attach it to the issue. A mininal excerpt of the document that still shows the problem is even better.
  • a screenshot of is a good idea if it clearly shows the problem

Using application switches

Application switches are often valuable for isolating a problem. Most of OpenOffice.org's options can be found its Tools->Options menu.

Some switches are so special that there is no user interface to change them. They are only useful for debugging and isolating a problem, but they are very valuable a that. So a developer might suggest to isolate a problem by setting an environment variable before running the application. E.g. for isolating problems with the menubar a developer might suggest to set the environment variable AQUA_NATIVE_MENUS to false. This is done by typing these commands into a terminal:

  • cd <INSTALL_DIR>/OpenOffice.org/Contents/MacOS
  • export AQUA_NATIVE_MENUS=false
  • ./soffice.bin

Provide a call stack for crash problems

Please note that bugs involving crashes should provide a description of how to reproduce the problem and a callstack. There are several ways to provide the callstack:

  • the preferred method is to use OOo"s builtin crash reporting tool
  • developers may provide a gdb backtrace of the problem
  • if the above two methods don"t work then please attach a file with the details provided by the AppleCrashReporter

Check against known issues

Check the list of open issues

Report a new issue

Report new issues after you have isolated the problem

Debug a problem

Debugging problems is often easier in an development environment:

Please note that XCode still has some problems with the executable named soffice.bin (because of the dot in the name). The issue has been reported to xcode-users list.

Current Work in progress (Aqua specific work only)

With OOO300 the Aqua port became a mainstream port, so most Aqua issues are handled in regular GSL-Layer childworkspaces instead of dedicated Aqua CWSses. Other CWSses that are purely Aqua specific are being tracked below:


Child WorkSpaces in development

All patches that developers have that need testing or peer review should be added here.

Child WorkSpaces in testing (closed for development)

Child WorkSpaces waiting for integration

  • CWS DEV300 appleremote02   : improve the Apple Remote use with Impress (use MEDIA_COMMAND stuff, improve code robustness, and portability )

Child Workspaces integrated into OpenOffice.org's trunk

A historical overview of old Aqua specific ChildWorkspaces.

Known build issues

  • Tiger: no known issues
  • Leopard: no known issues

External links

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