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Introduction

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Requirements

Hardware Requirements

• 1 or more reasonable fast CPUs, x-way CPU's recommended.

• 1 GB Ram ( 2 GB recommended )

• 10 GB free disk space

Software Requirements

• glibc:
  • for OOo<=3.1: 2.2.x or higher
  • for OOo>3.1: 2.3.2 or higher

• C/C++ Compiler
  • gcc >= 3.3
  • current reference compiler gcc 4.2.3

• The X11 development libraries and header files¹.

• PAM including the development headers².

• bash³.

• The gpc general polygon clipper library release 2.31, located at http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/aig/staff/alan/software/. Download and unpack the tarball. You should have the files gpc.c and gpc.h in $SRC_ROOT/external/gpc.

• gtk2 and libtiff including the development headers⁴.

Full Builds

To perform a full build, you need to follow these steps:

configure

• Run the configure script to check all requirements. Run the following command to view all possible options.

./configure --help

An example configure command (on Ubuntu 9.04 with as much libraries by the system used as possible):

./configure --with-use-shell=bash --with-system-libs \
--without-system-jars --without-system-icu --without-system-agg \
--without-system-lpsolve --without-system-mspack --disable-mozilla

See the last information box in the configure script for more information for your platform.

Please check for any warnings emitted by the configure-script.

bootstrap

When configure finished successfully, run:

./bootstrap

to create the dmake executable required to build OpenOffice.org.

setting the enviroment

When the configure script has been run successfully a file LinuxIntelEnv.Set.sh was created⁵. Do this:

source LinuxX86Env.Set.sh

to set up the enviroment for the build.

configure to build a ready-to-run installation (optinal)

To have the build create a ready-to-be-run installation for testing purposes, set the following environment variables⁶.

export LOCALINSTALLDIR="/my/Destination/Dir"
export PKGFORMAT="installed"

If you do not set PKGFORMAT, native packages (.deb/.rpm) will be build.

starting the build

Build the software by typing the following in $SRC_ROOT⁷:

dmake

The building procedure will take at least an hour (on a 3 GHz Quad-Core with 8GB RAM).

Rebuilding a module

To rebuild a module you can delete all output directories with, rebuild and redeliver into the solver with:

cd $MODULE
rm -rf unxlngi6.pro
build && deliver

(The directory name might be slightly different: 64-bit Linux is unxlngx6.pro for example)

Partial rebuild

If you decide to rebuild a module in an incompatible way, you will need to rebuild all modules depending on it (directly or indirectly)

cd $SRC_ROOT/instsetoo_native
build --from $INCOMPATIPLEMODULE --prepare
build --from $INCOMPATIBLEMODULE

The build process started with build --all in $SRC_ROOT/instsetoo_native will create an installation set in English. A simple build in $SRC_ROOT/instsetoo_native will also create the installation sets, provided all other modules are already built⁸.

Building a module with Debug Information

To rebuild a module with debug information and additional assertions and checks, run:

cd $MODULE
build --from $MODULE --prepare # removes old output trees and solver
build --from $MODULE

For details, see Debugging

Finding Installation Sets

The english installation set will be located at $SRC_ROOT/instsetoo_native/unxlngi6.pro/OpenOffice/{deb,rpm,archive}/install/en-US/⁹.

See Also

• Building OpenOffice.org (esp. the Tips and Tricks section for stuff like ccache)
• Compatible Builds
• Module Build Order

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build --all would rebuild changed/missing files. However, it does not check for incompatible modules. If unsure, use build --from --prepare.

⁹The en-US in the path names indicates that the localization is American English. This value corresponds to the language tags defined by RFC 1766 (Tags for the Identification of Languages). The German installation set will be located in a de subdirectory. This scheme holds true for all localizations you may have chosen explicitly.

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Note that you can only build the language packs after you have build the complete office with all selected languages.

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