Development

Getting started with OOo development

You are at the start of a long, but very exciting journey! There are many ways to get started, but the easiest one is to:

• Get the source code and build you own OpenOffice.org so that you are able to modify things

• Pick up your favorite bug/annoyance, and try to fix that
• When you see that hacking OOo pleases you, it's time to look for bigger tasks, get in contact on IRC or on the mailing list: mailto:dev@openoffice.org

If you want to extend OpenOffice.org with extensions and UNO components take a look at the Development Guide. The easiest way to get started is by using the plugins for Netbeans and for Eclipse.

Development resources

• Building Guide
• Development Guide
• Opengrok - source browser
• Mercurial-Webinterface
• OpenOffice.org API
• Environment Information System also called EIS, more infos can be found here.
• Bugtracker
• Environment Variables - a description of handy environment variables used at runtime
• A description of the source directories

Further reading

• Meet the team on IRC
• Using C++ with OOo SDK
• Tutorials - hacker tutorials to get the hang of the code
• Hacking
• Debugging - for when it all goes wrong
• Mercurial and OOo and Subversion - How to use the SCMs that OOo uses
• Contributing Patches - for when you have something to fold back
• Commit Rights - An overview of how to attain commit rights, and what to do with them once you get them
• Tips - misc. hints & tips.
• Compiler versions used by port maintainers and release engineers
• Warning-free Code and Correct C++
• Tinderbox - test new child workspaces and show your build logfile to others

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