Getting the source

OpenOffice.org Building Guide

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• Getting the source
• Basic Concepts
• Build Requirements
• Building on Windows
• Building on Windows with MinGW
• Building on Mac OS X
• Building on Linux
• Building on Solaris

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The source code can be fetched in several ways, as described below.

Source Tarballs (for package maintainers)

The latest release version of the source code can be downloaded as tarballs from Download, see Source on the right.

The source is pretty big and has therefore been split into several files.

Tarball	Description
OOo_3.x.x_src_core.tar.bz2	The necessary part for each build, the other tarballs depend on this one.
OOo_3.x.x_src_system.tar.bz2	Libraries that usually exist on a standard Linux system1. For a Windows build this package is usually required.
OOo_3.x.x_src_binfilter.tar.bz2	The filters for old binary StarOffice formats
OOo_3.x.x_src_l10n.tar.bz2	Translations of the software for many languages
OOo_3.x.x_src_extensions.tar.bz2	Extensions source package
OOo_3.x.x_src_testautomation.tar.bz2	Automated test suite (optional)

For a full build you need them all. For development, the core package is usually all you need.

Unpack the tarballs one at a time to a directory. They will create a new directory with the name of the milestone, such as OOO310_m11. This folder will from now on be the $SRC_ROOT, when you run ./configure it will create a shell-script that will set the environment variable to this path.

Avoid using winzip to extract the downloaded source archive. Observed problems include: CR-LF errors that can affect makefiles and cause compile errors Certain files unpacked into root folder, esp. likely when actual path is deeply nested (e.g. foo/bar/source/foo/java/org/x/y/z/w/LongFileName.hmm) which again causes mysterious compile errors. Use the tar from Cygwin instead: unzip for .gz tar xvzf OOo_3.x.x_src_core.tar.gz bzip2 for .bz2 tar xvjf OOo_3.1.0_src_core.tar.bz2

SCM-Access (for developers)

Checking out a milestone (a stable development version released by RelEng

svn checkout svn://svn.services.openoffice.org/ooo/tags/DEV300_mXX/

Replace XX with the highest currently available milestone.

The files will be placed in the current directory.

See:

http://svn.services.openoffice.org/ooo/tags/

for a list of available milestones. Template:Documentation/Note Template:Documentation/Tip

Footnotes

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