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=== Introduction ===
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This document tries to wrap-up the build process for OpenOffice on MacOS X using the native windowing-toolkit of the platform named Aqua. The main goal is to get the demonstration programs "svdem" up and running. They act as a fairly good starting point to further endeavours, since they are used to test the capabilities of the underlying VCL layer. If this is achieved, one can build and Install the full-fledged OpenOffice.org Package. The bias of this document is to describe the cumbersome build process of OpenOffice.org rather than to give a kickstart in the coding involved to get VCL ported to Carbon. A starting point for this is Pierre de Filippis excellent [[Intro_To_Mac_Porting]].
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{{DISPLAYTITLE:Building OpenOffice 3.x or Apache OpenOffice 4.0 on Mac OSX}}
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[[Category:MacOSX]]
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{{Note|These instructions have been '''DEPRECATED'''}}
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{{SeeAlso|EN|
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* [[Documentation/Building_Guide_AOO/Building_on_MacOsX]] }}
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= Overview =
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This document explains how to build older OpenOffice source code on Mac OS X systems.  
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{{Note|<code>$SRC_ROOT</code> will denote the directory in which the source code of Apache OpenOffice is stored.}}
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{{Tip|You are advised to check the release notes for the release you are building to inform yourself about changes since previous releases.}}
  
I use the bash shell in all examples, since to my 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 of the build enviroment here: [http://tools.openoffice.org/build_env.html Open OfficeBuild Environment].
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= Requirements =
  
Many thanks for help and assistance go to Pavel Janik and Eric Bachard.
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To build the office on Mac OS X several requirements/prerequisites have to be fulfilled.  
  
=== Prerequisites ===
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== Mandatory Requirements ==
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* '''Mac OS X''' version 10.4 (aka Tiger) or later (if using 10.5 aka Leopard, have a look at [[User:Dyrcona/LeopardBuild#flex]]
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* '''Mac 10.4 SDK'''
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* '''XCode''' version 2.4.1 or any XCode 3. 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 [https://connect.apple.com/ Apple Developer Connection] site (free of charge) to be able to [http://developer.apple.com/technology/xcode.html download it].  On Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard), make sure to install the optional 10.4 SDK with XCode.
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* '''dmake''', the build environment depends currently on a special patched version of dmake that you can download and build on demand during configure and bootstrap. Or you can provide a prebuilt version and can specify it during configure.
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* '''epm''', the build environment depends currently on a special patched version of epm (easy package manager) that you can download and build on demand during configure and bootstrap. Or you can provide a prebuilt version and can specify it during configure. 
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{{Note|XCode 3 and SDK 10.4 is currently required for building trunk or the releases. Work on supporting XCode>=4 is ongoing.}}
  
This document was derived from the description of the X11 build thanksworthy provided by Eric Hoch in this document: [[MacOSXBuildInstructions]]. Here i like to outline the things you need to buld the Aqua Version (besides the OS). Your are much better off to install the Fink Package Manager on your Apple, to resolve these dependencies (and get some cool stuff too). Go to [http://fink.sourceforge.net Fink]
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== Optional Requirements ==
  
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=== Prebuilt unowinreg.dll ===
  
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This library is Windows only but will be packed in the Apache OpenOffice SDK to ensure that it is available on all platforms. The library provides some glue code to setup a working UNO environment for UNO client applications connecting to an office and doing some remote automation via API. The library should be stored in ''main/external/unowinreg''. Only necessary for building the SDK.
  
==== Xcode ====
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The library can be downloaded under
Xcode 2.3 and 2.4 are known to work for Aqua development. Please add earlier versions work as well, please add them here.
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* http://tools.openoffice.org/unowinreg_prebuild/680/unowinreg.dll
  
==== Java 1.4.2+ ====
 
==== The perl module Archive::Zip ====
 
<code>[bash,N]
 
perl -MCPAN -eshell
 
install Archive::Zip
 
</code>
 
==== Apache Ant 1.6.5 ====
 
For the OpenOffice Builds you need to have Apache's Ant in the source-directory. You have to have Ant Version 1.6.5+. My Ant usually resides in /opt/ant so i link it in from there:
 
<code>[bash,N]
 
cd src680-m182/
 
ln -s /opt/ant/ apache-ant-1.6.5
 
</code>
 
  
==== gpc ====
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== Recommended tools ==
GPC is available here: ftp://ftp.cs.man.ac.uk/pub/toby/gpc/gpc231.tar.Z>
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Attention: Direct Link to the download but it's only a few hundred KB.
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Note: You can alternatively use the libart_lgpl library instead of GPC. This requires an additional configure flag (--enable-libart) and a precompiled libart library installed in a standard location, such as /usr/lib.
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==== pkg-config ====
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Called ''pkgconfig'' in Fink.
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pkg-config can be found here : http://pkgconfig.freedesktop.org/wiki/
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* '''ccache'''
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If you intend to build Apache OpenOffice 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.
  
==== gnu copy ====
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You can install it using '''[http://www.finkproject.org/ Fink]'''. It is simply named "ccache". For '''[http://www.macports.org/ MacPorts]''' users the package is called "ccache".  
In Fink terms this is in the package ''fileutils''.
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If you prefer direct download, GNU coreutils can be found at http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/coreutils.html.
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If you don't use fink, you can download and build it yourself using the source provided at http://ccache.samba.org/
  
After installing, you should copy or rename the newly installed cp to gnucp (located at /usr/local/bin/cp or /sw/bin/cp if you used Fink) (cf. http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=69711)
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There are two ways to enable ccache - one is to set environment variables, the other way is to use symlinks.
  
=== Some Backgroud (what is aquavcl01, EIS) ===
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Using environment variables:
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export CC="ccache gcc"
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export CXX="ccache g++"
  
==== EIS ====
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Using the symlink approach:
OpenOffice sources are basically kept in the CVS server located at anoncvs.services.openoffice.org. However this repository is managed by a database on top called EIS (Environment Information System) which is used to keep track of Master- and Client Workspaces. Master Workspaces are used to keep track of changes going back of the mainline trunk and undergo extensive QA-cycles. These Master Workspaces are driven to official releases. Child workspaces in contrast are copies of certain Master Workspaces used to develop and test bugfixes and additional functionality. These Child Workspaces are later (hopefully) merged back to mainlain Master Workspaces. The TX20 Report mentioned in the Links section gives a very good overview about the overall process. To learn more about Childworkspaces (CWS) have a look here: [[CWS]].
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# create a directory for the links
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mkdir ~/bin
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# create the symlinks pointing to ccache with the name of the compiler
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ln -s /path/to/ccache ~/bin/gcc
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ln -s /path/to/ccache ~/bin/g++
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ln -s /path/to/ccache ~/bin/cc
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ln -s /path/to/ccache ~/bin/c++
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# no all you need to enable ccache is to prepend ~/bin to your PATH
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$ export PATH=~/bin:$PATH
  
Go to EIS http://eis.services.openoffice.org/EIS2/servlet/Logon and Logon as guest/guest to get yourself an impression. You can find information about the different workspaces, their dates and times there.  
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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.
  
==== VCL (Visual Class Libraries) ====
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Since OOo is rather huge, you should increase the cache-size to 1 GB or more
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ccache -M 1G
  
Porting OpenOffice.org to a new Windowing Toolkit is mostly porting of the OpenOffice's VCL Layer (Visual Class Libraries) to the new platforms toolkit. The VCL-Layer is responsible of mapping the OpenOffice Application calls to the windowing toolkit.
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* '''subversion''' version '''1.5.4 or later'''
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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 [http://subversion.tigris.org subversion project] Version 1.5.4 or later is required because of important fixes related to the merge-feature.
  
The (native) OpenOffice port to MacOSX using the Aqua Windowing Toolkit is developed in a child workspace called '''aquavcl01'''. This child workspace consists of the modules (aka subdirs): canvas dtrans extensions freetype padmin scp2 sj2 solenv vcl.
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== Get the source and prepare to build it ==
  
The basic approach to prepare a developer's client system to succsessfully build OpenOffice/Aqua is the following:
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=== Get the source from SVN ===
  
# checkout a given OpenOffice Milestone.
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You need about 4.7 GB for a checkout from the svn repository. Building the source requires another 5GB.<br>
# checkout aquavcl01 Child Workspace.
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# merge them together.
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# apply the latest patches.
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The last point here is a cumbersome but nevertheless necessary operation, since this porting project is in flux. Thanks to Pavel and many others improvements are happening at tremendous pace at the moment. All of these improvements get distributed as patches/diffs against aquavcl01. Aquavcl01 needs to remain stable all the time, therefore the team needs to work on this patch-by-patch aproach at the moment.
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* '''check out the latest source from svn'''
  
=== Getting the code (checkout, merge and patch the puppy) ===
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svn co https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/openoffice/trunk aoo
  
Now let's have a look what to check-out and where. All these milestone numbers below highly depend on the given point-in-time. The current milestone as of now (August, 16th 2006) is m184. You may change this to your needs. You can finde the current milestone of each cws in the EIS database.
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=== One-Time preparation and scripts ===
  
You also need to bear in mind that you have to access to the CVS-Server's default port (2401). If a firewall stop's you here you have to setup a CVS-Tunnel.
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Apache OpenOffice build environment is configured using the open-source configuration-management package 'autoconf'. So you can do your beloved './configure' command, is now done in the '''main''' source directory.  
  
==== create a directory for a given milestone, setup CVS access: ====
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To save the configure parameters and use them with different milestones it is useful to create your own build script to configure the environment and to trigger the build.
<code>[bash,N]
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mkdir src680-m184
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cd src680-m184
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export CVSROOT=:pserver:anoncvs@anoncvs.services.openoffice.org:/cvs
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cvs login
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</code>
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Please Enter the password 'anoncvs'
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==== checkout Milestone m184 (1,5 GB): ====
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The directory structure when you have checked out the sources from svn looks like:
<code>[bash,N]
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cvs -z3 co -r SRC680_m184 OpenOffice2
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</code>
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Once done, you'll obtain milestone 184. this not exactly what we want, because all changes concerning aquavcl01 Child workspace are not included. To complete, we need to check aquavcl01 changes.
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==== checkout Aquavcl01 (50 MB): ====
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aoo/
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aoo/main
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aoo/extras
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aoo/test
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aoo/ext_libraries
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aoo/ext_sources
  
1) First possibility : create a dedicated tree (cool backup )
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Move into '''main''' and configure a minimal environment to build your first version of Apache OpenOffice:
 
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To check aquavcl01 Child workspace, the most simple is to create aquavcl01 directory, and go inside this dir
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<code>[bash,N]
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mkdir aquavcl01-src
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  cd aquavcl01-src
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  cd main
</code>
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(assuming you arelady did cvs login ..etc )
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<code>[bash,N]
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cvs -z3 co -r cws_src680_aquavcl01 OpenOffice2
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</code>
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The following modules will be present at the end :
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canvas
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Run the autoconf command to prepare a new configure based on the latest changes in configure.in
extensions
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padmin
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scp2
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solenv
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dtrans
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freetype
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psprint
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sj2
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vcl
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All these modules are the ones we modified to create the native version :  they all are tagged "aquavcl01" (see all CVS/Tag files in the tree) and all you have to do is either rename or delete the one located in src680-m184 and replace them with the one located in aquavcl01-src.
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e.g. : canvas in src680-m184 will become canvas_m184 , and then, cp canvas from aquavcl01-src into src-m184
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  autoconf
  
This applies for all the modules listed above.
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Run configure
  
2) Second possibility : use a little script to extract changes : extract_aquavcl01.sh
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./configure --without-stlport --with-dmake-url=http://dmake.apache-extras.org.codespot.com/files/dmake-4.12.tar.bz2 --with-epm-url=http://www.msweet.org/files/project2/epm-3.7-source.tar.gz
  
This shell script, located in src680-m184 will contain :
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This commands prepares a minimal environment to build the office without any category-b enabled external libraries. A pure Apache license compatible version. See also the configure switches ''--with-dmake-path'' and ''--with-epm'' to specify prebuilt versions of dmake or epm.
<code>[bash,N]
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#!/bin/bash
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  list="canvas extensions padmin scp2 solenv dtrans freetype psprint sj2 vcl"
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  for i in $list ;  do
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    cd $i
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    cvs up -j CWS_SRC680_AQUAVCL01_ANCHOR -j cws_src680_aquavcl01
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    cd ..
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  done
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</code>
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Then chmod +x extract_aquavcl01.sh
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Finally you should run bootstrap to trigger further preparations and to create platform specific shell script to setup a working build environment. On Mac OS x for example '''MacOSXX86Env.Set.sh''' on a Intel based system. 
  
and run it :
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=== Build environment with enabled category-b dependencies ===
  
./extract_aquavcl01.sh
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To prepare a build environment that provides more features and make use of further external libraries which are under copyleft but viral licenses you have to explicitly enable this '''category-b''' components.
  
When finished, and if no problem occurs, you should have a complete tree.
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./configure --with-dmake-url=http://dmake.apache-extras.org.codespot.com/files/dmake-4.12.tar.bz2 \
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    --with-epm-url=http://www.msweet.org/files/project2/epm-3.7-source.tar.gz \
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    --disable-build-mozilla \
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    --without-stlport \
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    --enable-verbose \
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    '''--enable-category-b'''\
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    --enable-wiki-publisher
  
==== Apply some patches ====
 
  
After you've checked-out all the sources you need, you may have to apply some patches.  
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===Example build script to simplify user specific configurations===
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As mentioned before to save the configure parameters and use them with different versions it is useful to create your own build script to configure the environment.
  
For the succsessfull build of m184 plus aquavcl01 you need to apply the patch from issue number [http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=68810 68810]:
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Create 'build.sh' (to be written) :
<code>[bash,N]
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patch -p0 <../patches/i68810.patch
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</code>
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=== One-Time preparations and scripts ===
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<pre>
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#! /bin/bash
  
OpenOffice building gets configured by the popular open-source configuration-management package 'autoconf'. So you can do your beloved './configure' command, but in our case this is done in the 'config_office' subdirectory. To save the configure parameters and use them with different milestones I used to link-in my shellscript to fire up the ./configure line.
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echo "### checking for unowinreg.dll ... "
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if [ ! -e  ./external/unowinreg/unowinreg.dll ]; then
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    wget -O external/unowinreg/unowinreg.dll http://tools.openoffice.org/unowinreg_prebuild/680/unowinreg.dll
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else
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    echo "  unowinreg.dll found"
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fi
  
My directory-structure looks like this:
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echo "### checking for moz prebuild libs ... "
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if [ ! -e  ./moz/zipped/MACOSXGCCIinc.zip ]; then
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    wget -O ./moz/zipped/MACOSXGCCIinc.zip http://www.openoffice.org/tools/moz_prebuild/OOo3.2/MACOSXGCCIinc.zip
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    wget -O ./moz/zipped/MACOSXGCCIlib.zip http://www.openoffice.org/tools/moz_prebuild/OOo3.2/MACOSXGCCIlib.zip
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    wget -O ./moz/zipped/MACOSXGCCIruntime.zip http://www.openoffice.org/tools/moz_prebuild/OOo3.2/MACOSXGCCIruntime.zip
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else
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    echo "  moz prebuild libs found"
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fi
  
  bin/
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if [ ! -e ./configure ]; then
src680-m176/
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    echo "### autoconf ..."
src680-m182/
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    autoconf
...
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else
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    echo "### autoconf ..."
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    rm ./configure
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    autoconf
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fi
  
Now I go to the 'config_office' subdir and link in my startscript:
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echo "### Configure"
<code>[bash,N]
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./configure --with-dmake-url=http://dmake.apache-extras.org.codespot.com/files/dmake-4.12.tar.bz2 --with-epm-url=http://ftp.easysw.com/pub/epm/3.7/epm-3.7-source.tar.gz
cd src680-m182/config_office/
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ln -s ../../bin/build.sh
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</code>
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And this is how 'build.sh' looks like:
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<code>[bash,N]
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#./configure --with-build-version="$(date +"%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S (%a, %d %b %Y)") - Rev. $(echo $(svn info) | sed -e 's/^.*Last Changed Rev: //g' -e 's/ .*//g')" \
#!/bin/sh
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    --disable-build-mozilla \
export BASE=`pwd|sed 's/\/config_office//'`
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    --enable-verbose --enable- category-b --enable-minimizer --enable-presenter-console --enable-wiki-publisher \
export OOVERSION=`echo $BASE|sed 's/^\/.*\///'`
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    --with-dmake-url=http://dmake.apache-extras.org.codespot.com/files/dmake-4.12.tar.bz2 \
echo Building from      : $BASE
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    --with-epm-url=http://ftp.easysw.com/pub/epm/3.7/epm-3.7-source.tar.gz
echo OpenOffice Version : $OOVERSION
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./configure \
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--with-lang="de en-US" \
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--with-jdk-home=/Library/Java/Home/ \
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--with-ant-home=$BASE/apache-ant-1.6.5/ \
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--with-gnu-cp=/sw/bin/cp \
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--with-epm=internal \
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--disable-mozab \
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--disable-odk \
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--disable-pasf \
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--disable-gtk \
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--disable-mozilla \
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--with-build-version=$OOVERSION-`date +%d-%m-%y` \
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--disable-fontconfig \
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--disable-neon \
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--without-nas
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</code>
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--disable-odl will avoid you to download some windows dll which is not needed for aqua-build.
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./bootstrap
--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.
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</pre>
--disable-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.
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This is allowedly a pretty much limited setup, but my overall goal is to get people to have 'svdem' build to start coding rather than to have a production ready build for the final release. Therefore I switched off most of the stuff. How these offical builds are done in the long run is to be decided when we get there.
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Put this script into ~/bin and make sure it is executable :
  
=== Doing the build ===
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chmod ug+x ~/bin/build.sh
  
Fine, now we have a (hopefully) working 'build.sh' in the config_office subdir. We need to run it beforehand:
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<b>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  [http://tools.openoffice.org/build_env.html OpenOffice.org's Build Environment].</b>
  
cd src680-m182/config_office/
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== Doing the build ==
./build.sh
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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'.
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After running configure and bootstrap we should have a working build environment and all necessary scripts should have been created. From now on you can use '''MacOSXX86Env.Set.sh''' to prepare a new shell with a working build environment.
  
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:
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=== On Mac Intel ===
  
On PowerPC :
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source MacOSXX86Env.Set.sh
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cd instsetoo_native
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build --all
  
  cd ..
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  or
./bootstrap
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source MacOSXPPCEnv.Set.sh
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time dmake
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build --all -P4
  
Or (on Mac Intel ) :
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=== On PowerPC ===
  
cd ..
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  source MacOSXPPCEnv.Set.sh
./bootstrap
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  cd instsetoo_native
  source MacOSXIntelEnv.Set.sh
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build --all
  time dmake
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The main purpose of the '''boostrap''' 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
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or
  
Sourcing MacOSXPPCEnv.Set.sh is very important not only for building but also for '''running''' svdem later on. Here all the Enviroment-Variables for the Build will be set up. For a detailed descripton see [[Environment_Variables]]. Please note that on Intel machines, 'MacOSXPPCEnv.Set' should be substituted with 'MacOSXIntelEnv.Set'.
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build --all -P2
  
This Build process takes on my box (Dual 1.8 GHz G5, 1.5GB RAM) roughly 10 hours. Be paitioned. What can you do meanwhile? Do this:
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=== Comments on above ===
<code>[bash,N]
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while true ; do find . -maxdepth 1 -type d -anewer MacOSXPPCEnv.Set.sh |wc -l ; sleep 5; done
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</code>
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and wait till the number reaches 174
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=== Creating Debug-Versions of Modules ===
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'''TODO TODO TODO ....'''
  
'''Is it possible to build the complete set ?'''
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if you run into trouble with --dlv_switch (see: {{Bug|77360}})
  
Currently not possible, and not adviced.
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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
  
''' is it possible to build some modules with symbols ?'''
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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'.
  
Yes, and that's the simplest way to proceed. Some modules, like sal and vcl can be rebuilt using debug.
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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.
  
Example :
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If you want to see how the progress on that build  is you can use two '''build''' options to get a comfortable view:
  
To rebuild sal with symbols included, do:
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build ... <see above> ... --html --html_path /Users/$USER/Sites
  
<code>[bash,N]
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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.
cd sal
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rm -rf unxmacxp.pro
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build debug=true
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</code>
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and recopy the libs into the bundle. gdb will display the symbols, and make your life easier.
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If you build on Snow Leopard (aka Mac OS X 10.6): Set DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES to point to the correct libsqlite3.dylib:
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<pre>
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DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES=/usr/lib/libsqlite3.dylib
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</pre>
  
Note :  debug string is tested, and DEBUG is active when debug string is not empty. So debug=t works too.
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== '''Installing, preparing and running OpenOffice.org''' ==
  
''' How change gdb options, and use e.g. -g -ggdb or -gdwarf-2  ?'''
+
===''' Find the Bundle''' ===
  
To rebuild the module, you just have to modify the option in solenv/inc/unxmacx.mk, replacing -g with -ggdb
+
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.)
  
'''Known issues'''
+
And is located in instsetoo_native/unxmacxi.pro/OpenOffice/dmg/install/en-US  directory ( replace en-US with your locale )
  
Sometimes a build error, or a runtime error, may be seen in the normal build, 
+
[[Image:Bundle_Location3.0beta.jpg]]
but the error goes away when --enable-debug is used or if the module is compiled with debug=true.  
+
  
The DEBUG build turns off optimisation, so this is a hint that compiler optimisation causes the error.
+
=== '''Install the new Build''' ===
  
The error might be due to incorrect code or a compiler fault.  Such errors might not be seen on all platforms,
+
* double-click on the *.dmg icon
 +
* drag the OpenOffice icon into a folder of your choice
  
and might not be seen in different compiler versions on one platform.
+
=== '''Run the new Build''' ===
  
If the code can not be fixed there is a workaround using NOOPTFILES to build specified files with no optimisation.
+
* double click the application icon in that folder
+
Example :
+
  
jvmfwk on Mac OS X: build jvmfwk in m183 on Mac OS X Intel leads to Bus Error when javaldx is run.
+
=== '''Screenshots''' ===
  
Solution : use trial and error to rebuild individual files with debug=true. This proves the problem lies with vendorbase.cxx
+
Now you can start to work with this [[Aqua_Screenshots | amazing productivity suite]].
  
Have a look in sc/source/core/data/makefile.mk for an example to use NOOPTFILES
+
== '''Contribute by finding, isolating, debugging or solving issues''' ==
  
To solve our problem: just add : NOOPTFILES= $(SLO)$/vendorbase.obj in the corresponding makefile.
+
=== '''Isolate a problem''' ===
  
Take care in case some .IF is needed to prevent interference with other platforms.
+
==== '''Reduce a problem''' ====
  
There's some additional information around debugging on Christians Page [[User:CL#2006-09-03]]
+
* 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
  
=== Building and running svdem ===
+
==== '''Using application switches''' ====
  
We want to run the demonstration programs called "svdem". There are a couple of binaries called "svdem", which area they cover is still somewhat unclear to me, I hope some of you guys can shed some light here. But hey, this is a wiki! Just correct here :-).
+
Application switches are often valuable for isolating a problem. Most of OpenOffice.org's options can be found its Tools->Options menu.
 +
<br><br>
 +
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
  
To have the VCL Testprogram build you have to do:
+
==== '''Provide a call stack for crash problems''' ====
  
cd vcl; build --all
+
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 [[CrashReporting|crash reporting tool]]
 +
* developers may provide a [[Providing_a_gdb_backtrace | 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
  
This should have created a file called "svdem" here: vcl/unxmacxp.pro/bin/svdem. If you managed to build these binaries, you are nearly there. What you need now, is a wrapper directory structure to make this binary a fellow Mac OSX application. I mean the ones which have this structure:
+
=== '''Check against known issues''' ===
  
svdem.app/
+
Check the list of [http://www.openoffice.org/issues/buglist.cgi?issue_status=UNCONFIRMED&issue_status=NEW&issue_status=STARTED&issue_status=REOPENED&email1=&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&email2=&emailtype2=exact&emailreporter2=1&issueidtype=include&issue_id=&changedin=&votes=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=&chfieldvalue=&short_desc=&short_desc_type=fulltext&long_desc=&long_desc_type=fulltext&issue_file_loc=&issue_file_loc_type=fulltext&status_whiteboard=&status_whiteboard_type=fulltext&keywords=aqua&keywords_type=anytokens&field0-0-0=noop&type0-0-0=noop&value0-0-0=&cmdtype=doit&newqueryname=&order=Reuse+same+sort+as+last+time&Submit+query=Submit+query open issues]
svdem.app/Contents
+
svdem.app/Contents/Info.plist
+
svdem.app/Contents/MacOS
+
svdem.app/Contents/MacOS/applicat.rdb
+
svdem.app/Contents/MacOS/svdem
+
  
You can basically create this structure anywhere you want. And you can link-in the file you just created (svdem). So you build up this structure once and link-in the freshly created svdem there:
+
=== '''Report a new issue''' ===
  
ls -l svdem applicat.rdb
+
Report [http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/pre_submission.html new issues] after you have [[AquaBuild#Isolate_a_problem | isolated the problem]]
svdem -> /opt/src/openoffice/src680-m177//vcl/unxmacxp.pro/bin/svdem
+
applicat.rdb -> /opt/src/openoffice/src680-m177//vcl/unxmacxp.pro/bin/applicat.rdb
+
  
Now only the Info.plist file is missing, so here we go:
+
=== '''Debug a problem''' ===
  
<code>[xml,N]
+
Debugging problems is often easier in an development environment:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+
<ul>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
+
<li>With XCode: [[MacOSX_Debug_OpenOffice.org_using_XCode]]</li>
<plist version="1.0">
+
<li>With Xemacs: [http://www.mikesicotte.com/2007/02/21/debugging-ooo-with-xemacs-and-gdb Michael Sicotte's blog entry]</li>
<dict>
+
</ul>
        <key>CFBundleDevelopmentRegion</key>
+
        <string>English</string>
+
        <key>CFBundleDisplayName</key>
+
        <string>SvDem</string>
+
        <key>CFBundleExecutable</key>
+
        <string>svdem</string>
+
        <key>CFBundleIdentifier</key>
+
        <string>com.yourcompany.svdem</string>
+
        <key>CFBundleInfoDictionaryVersion</key>
+
        <string>6.0</string>
+
        <key>CFBundlePackageType</key>
+
        <string>APPL</string>
+
        <key>CFBundleSignature</key>
+
        <string>????</string>
+
        <key>CFBundleVersion</key>
+
        <string>1.0</string>
+
        <key>LSRequiresCarbon</key>
+
        <true/>
+
</dict>
+
</plist>
+
</code>
+
  
If you created the directory structure properly you can do './svdem' in the 'svdem.app/Contents/MacOS/' directory. You should see the svdem coming up.
+
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.
  
=== Installing, preparing and running  OpenOffice.org ===
+
== '''Current Work in progress (Aqua specific work only)''' ==
  
Here I like to outline the steps to run OpenOffice.org after a successful build from the sources. Running the native Aqua Version of OpenOffice.org is somewhat tricky at the moment, since the installation procedure and mode are not in their final state. So right now one has to manually do some preparations to run the Office suite. This will change in the future when we are about to release some Alpha Builds to a wider audience.
+
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:
  
==== Drag & Drop Install the Application from the Diskimage ====
+
* '''{{CWS|ogltrans4mac|DEV300}}''' : Implement the 3D (OpenGL) transitions in Impress ( see :  [[Mac_OS_X_Porting_-_OpenGL_transitions|  OpenGL transitions on Mac OS X ]] )
  
When you are one of the lucky few (Don't give up, Eric!), who have a successful build, you are going to see something like this as the last lines of the build:
 
  
.
 
.
 
.
 
......................................................................................................................................................
 
    (CRC32 $11685D33: DiscRecording 3.1.3f2 (Apple_HFS : 2))
 
Ressourcen hinzufügen…
 
......................................................................................................................................................
 
Dauer: 15.406s
 
Dateigröße: 144732418 Bytes, Prüfsumme: CRC32 $14E0BB67
 
Bearbeitete Sektoren: 773848, 773845 komprimiert
 
Geschwindigkeit: 24.5M Bytes/Sek
 
Ersparnis: 63.5 %
 
created: /opt/src/openoffice/src680-m182/instsetoo_native/unxmacxp.pro/OpenOffice/install/de/OpenOffice.org-2.0.4_de.dmg
 
  
In this final step the ""instsetoo_native"" target creates the install Diskimages using Apple's 'hdiutil'. In my case it gives its output in German. After this disk image(s) have been created, double click the disk image to mount it (or type open <path to the DMG Image>) , and then move the icon named "OpenOffice.org 2.0" to your ''Applications'' folder (or any other folder you want this program to reside). The "OpenOffice.org 2.0" icon shown in the Finder is in fact a subdirectory called "OpenOffice.org 2.0.app". Subdirectories named ".app" (along with some well-know files inside like Info.plist, etc) are called ''Bundles'' in Apple's lingo.
+
==='''Child WorkSpaces in development''' ===
  
==== Prepare the installation ====
+
* '''{{CWS|appleremote03|DEV300}}''' :  use the contextual menu in presentation mode with Impress. preliminary step
  
After the OpenOffice 2.0 Application has been copied to its destination, you have to go into this bundle and run a small shell script provided by Pavel Janik to prepare soffice.bin (OpenOffice.org launcher) for running. You have to run this script in the directory where a Universal Binary called "droplet" is located. This "droplet" binary was used to fire-off the X11 version of OpenOffice.org. Expect this to change, but as of now we have to do it like this.
+
* '''{{CWS|hotmac|OOO300}}''' : fix memory deallocation problems in exit()
  
I have put my OpenOffice.org build in my home directory's private "Application" folder (/Users/schmidtm/Applications), so please change this path to your installation. Now go to into the bundle and run the script:
+
* '''{{CWS|macosxscanner01|DEV300}}''' (planned)
  
cd /Users/schmidtm/Applications/OpenOffice.org 2.0.app/Contents/MacOS
+
All patches that developers have that need testing or peer review should be added here.
/opt/src/openoffice/bin/fix_installed_OOo
+
  
<code>[bash,N]
+
==='''Child WorkSpaces in testing (closed for development)''' ===
#!/bin/bash
+
+
[ ! -f droplet ] && {
+
    echo "Please run me in the directory, where binary named droplet is located."
+
    exit 0
+
}
+
+
mv THIRDPARTYLICENSEREADME.html help presets share ..
+
mv droplet droplet.orig
+
mv program/* .
+
rmdir program
+
+
cd ..
+
ln -sf MacOS program
+
sed 's#droplet#soffice.bin#' Info.plist >Info.plist.new
+
mv Info.plist.new Info.plist
+
cd MacOS
+
</code>
+
  
==== Run the soffice.bin ====
+
*'''{{CWS|macmiscfixes}}''' : misc fixes for mac
  
We're nearly through, let's fire-off the binary:
+
*'''{{CWS|maccrashrep}}''' : support crash reporting for OSX builds
  
AQUA_NATIVE_MENUS=TRUE AQUA_NATIVE_CONTROLS=TRUE ./soffice.bin -nofirststartwizard -norestore
+
*'''{{CWS|quicklookplugin01}}''' : a plugin for the QuickLook system available in MacOSX from versions 10.5 onwards
  
Notice the enviroment variable here. It's experimental stuff created by Pavel. At the moment we have:
+
==='''Child WorkSpaces waiting for integration''' ===
  
{| border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"
+
* '''{{CWS|appleremote02|DEV300}}''' : improve the Apple Remote use with Impress (use MEDIA_COMMAND stuff, improve code robustness, and portability )
|-
+
! Variable || Function
+
|-
+
| AQUA_NATIVE_CONTROLS=TRUE  || enable native controls code
+
|-
+
| AQUA_NATIVE_MENUS=TRUE || enable experimental native menus code
+
|}
+
  
Both changes are marked with comments in the source code, and when we remove them in the future, native controls and native menus will be enabled by default.
+
==='''Child Workspaces integrated into OpenOffice's trunk''' ===
  
 +
A historical overview of [[Aqua_Integrated_CWS | old Aqua specific ChildWorkspaces]].
  
Hack : to enable native controls and native menus by defaut without have to define an environment variable, just comment as follow :
+
== '''Known build issues '''==
 +
*'''Tiger''': no known issues
 +
*'''Leopard''': no known issues
 +
*'''Snow Leopard''': no known issues
 +
*'''Lion''': no known issues
 +
*'''Mountain Lion''': no known issues
  
in vcl/aqua/source/gdi/salnativewidgets.cxx , around line 55 :
+
<div align="left" style="color:grey; font-size:12px">[[AquaBuild/Some Background | '''Some Background (what is a CWS, EIS) (click me to know more) ''']]</div>
  
<code>
+
== '''External links''' ==
/*
+
* [https://issues.apache.org/ooo Apache OpenOffice Issuezilla] : a database of bugs, changes and enhancements
    static const char *pExperimental = getenv ("AQUA_NATIVE_CONTROLS");
+
* There are [[MacOSXPortMeetings | regular meetings]] on IRC (archives are [[Previous_Mac_Meeting_logs | available]]).
+
* Apache OpenOffice has a complicated code base. [[Source_code_directories | Here]] is an overview.
    if ( !pExperimental || strcasecmp(pExperimental, "TRUE") )
+
* the official Apache OpenOffice blog is at [https://blogs.apache.org/OOo/]
        return FALSE;
+
* [http://www.cocoadev.com Cocoadev] provides great resources to get up to speed in Cocoa development
*/
+
* Pierre Chatelier's excellent [http://ktd.club.fr/programmation/objective-c.php Objective C for C++ developers] is available in both english and french versions
</code>
+
* Details about OSX's [http://developer.apple.com/cocoa Cocoa API] are available in the XCode documentation
  
in vcl/aqua/source/window/salmenu.cxx, around line 124 :
 
<code>
 
/*
 
    static const char *pExperimental = getenv ("AQUA_NATIVE_MENUS");
 
 
    if ( !pExperimental || strcasecmp(pExperimental, "TRUE") )
 
        return FALSE;
 
*/
 
</code>
 
 
=== List of Patches for a given Milestone ===
 
 
Here is a list of Patches one has to apply against a given Milestone of SRC680 (including CWS aquavcl01). Please keep the older Milestones here, since people are probably still on these Versions.
 
 
{| border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"
 
|-
 
! Milestone || Patch to apply || Status
 
|-
 
| m184  || '''Patch 1''': [http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=68810 sw : 68810] <br>'''Patch 2''': to fix extensions and moz plugin build, building or not mozilla plugin, you have to apply macmozplugfix [http://eric.bachard.free.fr/patches/aqua/extensions_mozplug/aqua_extenstions_mozplug.diff patch] This patch does includes both np_sdk changes and extensions changes (see macmozplugfix cws) <br>'''Patch 3''': to avoid systematical crashes in runtime you'll have to apply [http://eric.bachard.free.fr/patches/aqua/vcl67/vcl67.patch vcl67 patch] in vcl <br> '''Patch 4''' : to simply start OpenOffice.org after applying Pavel's script (else, launch OpenOffice.org using a terminal is mandatory, <br> apply [http://eric.bachard.free.fr/patches/aqua/fix_libsalsystools/i69373.diff.txt i69373]|| OK
 
|-
 
| m184  || To avoid crashes with several entries in menu  apply [http://eric.bachard.free.fr/patches/aqua/about_workaround/diff_salframe.diff about_workaround patch] in vcl/aqua/source/window  ||Work in progress
 
|}
 
 
=== URL Links ===
 
 
# MacOSX X11 Build Documentation: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/MacOSXBuildInstructions
 
# Bug Database: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/query.cgi
 
# Mailinglist: mac@porting.openoffice.org
 
# IRC Meeting-Logs (#ooo_macport@freenode.org): http://eric.bachard.free.fr/mac/aquavcl/logs_meetings/
 
# TX20: http://eric.bachard.free.fr/UTBM_TX20/reports/Carbon_vcl.pdf
 
# OpenOffice Source Directory Structure: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Source_code_directories
 
# Pavels Patch Wiki: http://blog.janik.cz/
 
# Eric Bachard Wiki: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/User:Ericb
 
# Christian Lippka Wiki: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/User:CL
 
# Carbon: http://developer.apple.com/carbon
 
# EIS: http://eis.services.openoffice.org/EIS2/servlet/Logon
 
# Runtime Configuration: http://developer.apple.com/documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/BPRuntimeConfig/index.html
 
# OpenOffice Domain Developer http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/DomainDeveloper
 
 
=== Screenshots ===
 
 
# Eric Bachard screenshots (some are from Stephan Schaefer) http://eric.bachard.free.fr/mac/aquavcl/screenshots/
 
# Most recent: http://eric.bachard.free.fr/mac/aquavcl/screenshots/scrollbar_01sept
 
# Pavel Janik screenshots http://blog.janik.cz/images/MacOSX/2006-08-10
 
# Important screenshot (eventloop issue) : http://blog.janik.cz/images/MacOSX/  => See : OOoMenus-separator-and-disabled_entries.png
 
# Native Menus : http://eric.bachard.free.fr/mac/aquavcl/screenshots/ericb_22august/native_menu_4.jpg
 
 
[[Category:MacOSX]]
 
[[Category:Porting]]
 
[[Category:Development]]
 
 
[[Category:Aqua]]
 
[[Category:Aqua]]
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Overview

This document explains how to build older OpenOffice source code on Mac OS X systems.

Documentation note.png $SRC_ROOT will denote the directory in which the source code of Apache OpenOffice is stored.
Tip.png You are advised to check the release notes for the release you are building to inform yourself about changes since previous releases.


Requirements

To build the office on Mac OS X several requirements/prerequisites have to be fulfilled.

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
  • Mac 10.4 SDK
  • XCode version 2.4.1 or any XCode 3. 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 install the optional 10.4 SDK with XCode.
  • dmake, the build environment depends currently on a special patched version of dmake that you can download and build on demand during configure and bootstrap. Or you can provide a prebuilt version and can specify it during configure.
  • epm, the build environment depends currently on a special patched version of epm (easy package manager) that you can download and build on demand during configure and bootstrap. Or you can provide a prebuilt version and can specify it during configure.
Documentation note.png {{{1}}}

Optional Requirements

Prebuilt unowinreg.dll

This library is Windows only but will be packed in the Apache OpenOffice SDK to ensure that it is available on all platforms. The library provides some glue code to setup a working UNO environment for UNO client applications connecting to an office and doing some remote automation via API. The library should be stored in main/external/unowinreg. Only necessary for building the SDK.

The library can be downloaded under


Recommended tools

  • ccache

If you intend to build Apache OpenOffice 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 SVN

You need about 4.7 GB for a checkout from the svn repository. Building the source requires another 5GB.

  • check out the latest source from svn
svn co https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/openoffice/trunk aoo

One-Time preparation and scripts

Apache OpenOffice build environment is configured using the open-source configuration-management package 'autoconf'. So you can do your beloved './configure' command, is now done in the main source directory.

To save the configure parameters and use them with different milestones it is useful to create your own build script to configure the environment and to trigger the build.

The directory structure when you have checked out the sources from svn looks like:

aoo/
aoo/main 
aoo/extras
aoo/test
aoo/ext_libraries
aoo/ext_sources

Move into main and configure a minimal environment to build your first version of Apache OpenOffice:

cd main

Run the autoconf command to prepare a new configure based on the latest changes in configure.in

autoconf

Run configure

./configure --without-stlport --with-dmake-url=http://dmake.apache-extras.org.codespot.com/files/dmake-4.12.tar.bz2 --with-epm-url=http://www.msweet.org/files/project2/epm-3.7-source.tar.gz

This commands prepares a minimal environment to build the office without any category-b enabled external libraries. A pure Apache license compatible version. See also the configure switches --with-dmake-path and --with-epm to specify prebuilt versions of dmake or epm.

Finally you should run bootstrap to trigger further preparations and to create platform specific shell script to setup a working build environment. On Mac OS x for example MacOSXX86Env.Set.sh on a Intel based system.

Build environment with enabled category-b dependencies

To prepare a build environment that provides more features and make use of further external libraries which are under copyleft but viral licenses you have to explicitly enable this category-b components.

./configure --with-dmake-url=http://dmake.apache-extras.org.codespot.com/files/dmake-4.12.tar.bz2 \
    --with-epm-url=http://www.msweet.org/files/project2/epm-3.7-source.tar.gz \
    --disable-build-mozilla \
    --without-stlport \
    --enable-verbose \
    --enable-category-b\
    --enable-wiki-publisher


Example build script to simplify user specific configurations

As mentioned before to save the configure parameters and use them with different versions it is useful to create your own build script to configure the environment.

Create 'build.sh' (to be written) :

#! /bin/bash

echo "### checking for unowinreg.dll ... "
if [ ! -e  ./external/unowinreg/unowinreg.dll ]; then
    wget -O external/unowinreg/unowinreg.dll http://tools.openoffice.org/unowinreg_prebuild/680/unowinreg.dll
else
    echo "  unowinreg.dll found" 
fi

echo "### checking for moz prebuild libs ... "
if [ ! -e  ./moz/zipped/MACOSXGCCIinc.zip ]; then
    wget -O ./moz/zipped/MACOSXGCCIinc.zip http://www.openoffice.org/tools/moz_prebuild/OOo3.2/MACOSXGCCIinc.zip
    wget -O ./moz/zipped/MACOSXGCCIlib.zip http://www.openoffice.org/tools/moz_prebuild/OOo3.2/MACOSXGCCIlib.zip
    wget -O ./moz/zipped/MACOSXGCCIruntime.zip http://www.openoffice.org/tools/moz_prebuild/OOo3.2/MACOSXGCCIruntime.zip
else
    echo "  moz prebuild libs found" 
fi

if [ ! -e  ./configure ]; then
    echo "### autoconf ..."
    autoconf
else
    echo "### autoconf ..."
    rm ./configure
    autoconf
fi

echo "### Configure"
./configure --with-dmake-url=http://dmake.apache-extras.org.codespot.com/files/dmake-4.12.tar.bz2 --with-epm-url=http://ftp.easysw.com/pub/epm/3.7/epm-3.7-source.tar.gz

#./configure --with-build-version="$(date +"%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S (%a, %d %b %Y)") - Rev. $(echo $(svn info) | sed -e 's/^.*Last Changed Rev: //g' -e 's/ .*//g')" \
    --disable-build-mozilla \
    --enable-verbose --enable- category-b --enable-minimizer --enable-presenter-console --enable-wiki-publisher \
    --with-dmake-url=http://dmake.apache-extras.org.codespot.com/files/dmake-4.12.tar.bz2 \
    --with-epm-url=http://ftp.easysw.com/pub/epm/3.7/epm-3.7-source.tar.gz

./bootstrap

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

chmod ug+x ~/bin/build.sh

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

After running configure and bootstrap we should have a working build environment and all necessary scripts should have been created. From now on you can use MacOSXX86Env.Set.sh to prepare a new shell with a working build environment.

On Mac Intel

source MacOSXX86Env.Set.sh
cd instsetoo_native
build --all 
or
build --all -P4 

On PowerPC

source MacOSXPPCEnv.Set.sh
cd instsetoo_native
build --all 
or
build --all -P2 

Comments on above

TODO TODO TODO ....

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 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)

  • CWS quicklookplugin01   : a plugin for the QuickLook system available in MacOSX from versions 10.5 onwards

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's trunk

A historical overview of old Aqua specific ChildWorkspaces.

Known build issues

  • Tiger: no known issues
  • Leopard: no known issues
  • Snow Leopard: no known issues
  • Lion: no known issues
  • Mountain Lion: no known issues

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