Building OpenOffice.org

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Prerequisites, Dependencies, Different Platforms, Building a Milestone

see Building Guide

Hints

dmake first checks for depencies of the modules. If you have a fresh checkout you could get some errors:

Fetching dependencies for module swext from solver... failed...
Fetching from CVS...  failed

 WARNING! Project(s):
 swext
 
 not found and couldn't be built. Dependencies on that module(s)
 ignored. Maybe you should correct build 
 dmake:  Error code 1, while making 'check_modules'

You have to checkout the module swext by i.e.:
cvs co -r DEV300_m2 swext
(for DEV300_m22)
There are also failing depencies for modules apache-commons and tomcat. Check them out in the same way as swext above.
If you get the following error or something similar:

ERROR: /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2: undefined symbol: FT_Library_SetLcdFilter<br />
dmake:  Error code 1, while making '../unxlngi6.pro/lib/libeggtrayli.so'

your version of libcairo is too old. To solve this error install a newer version (i.e. libcairo.so.2.11.7). When building with cairo, you almost certainly need to specify --with-sytem-freetype, since the one that is in OOo's sources just is too old.
Actually, there is an error about ant, if you build swext/mediawiki:

BUILD FAILED
swext/mediawiki/build.xml:126: No supported regular expression matcher found: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.tools.ant.util.regexp.Jdk14RegexpMatcher

This error could be solved on Linux by installing a package called ant-optional or similar. There are some additional files for ant missing.

If you got an error like this

ERROR: Error 65280 occurred while making /work/ooovanillabuild/ucb/source/ucp/gvfs

look inside the output in your shell if there are something wrong with your glib-devel version. If you see inside the messages in the shell something like this:

/usr/include/glib-1.2/glib.h:2725:1: warning: this is the location of the previous definition
(...)
/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gthread.h:352:1: warning: "G_LOCK_NAME" redefined

you have to unistall one of the glib-devel version; mostly glib-devel version 1.

Tips and Tricks

Here are some tips that make your life easier or can accelerate the build

ccache, deps, parallel builds and prebuilt mozilla

see Building Guide

saving disk space by linking to the solver only

Use "--dlv_switch -link" when running build to tell deliver to only link the files instead of copying them:

build --dlv_switch -link

fixing epm 4 product name error

If you get "epm: Product names can only contain letters and numbers!" error, you must patch epm and comment out name check:

 /*
  * for (i = 0; prodname[i]; i ++)
  *   if (!isalnum(prodname[i] & 255))
  *   {
  *     puts("epm: Product names can only contain letters and numbers!");
  *     usage();
  *   }
 */