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Overview

Building Apache OpenOffice from source code follows the platform independent building guide when the build requirements outlined below are fulfilled.

General build requirements

Please see the general build requirements page.

Mac specific requirements for building AOO 4.1 (and older)

sudo xcode-select --install

curl -OL http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/autoconf/autoconf-2.69.tar.gz
tar xvjf autoconf-2.69.tar.gz
pushd autoconf-2.69
./configure --prefix=/usr/local
make
sudo make install
popd

curl -OL http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/tar/tar-1.27.tar.bz2
tar xvjf tar-1.27.tar.bz2
pushd tar-1.27
./configure --prefix=/usr/local
make
sudo make install
sudo ln -s /usr/local/bin/tar /usr/local/bin/gnutar
popd

Reference Build System

The reference build system for AOO 4.1.x and 4.2.x is a macOS VM with 8x3.33 cores and 24GB of RAM. The AOO 4.1.x VM is running macOS 10.13 (High Sierra) with Xcode 11, but requires the MacOSX10.11.sdk (SDK 10.12 and above do not support QuickTime, which is a requirement for AOO 4.1.x). We use xcodelegacy to install the required SDK into Xcode (You could also use Xcode7 directly). This setup is also configured to allow us to product the "Official" Community builds for macOS/OSX and supports versions as old as 10.9 (Mavericks). On this platform it takes 2-3 hours for a full build.

For AOO 4.2.x and later, we are running macOS 10.15 (Catalina) and Xcode 12.2. This allows us to continue to build for older platforms (as old as OS X 10.9! ) but also sign our releases for Apple Gatekeeper compatibility and deprecate the requirement for a QuickTime-compatible SDK.

If building for your own setup, some of the below may not be required.

3rd Party Requirements

Installed in /usr/local:

• Apache ant 1.9.9 (or later)
• dmake 4.13.0 / https://github.com/jimjag/dmake/archive/v4.13.1/dmake-4.13.1.tar.gz (./configure --prefix=/usr/local)
• epm 5.0.0 / https://github.com/jimjag/epm/archive/v5.0.0/epm-5.0.0.tar.gz (./configure --prefix=/usr/local)
• openssl 1.0.2l (or later) (no-shared)
• libxml2-2.9.6 (or later) (--prefix=/usr/local --enable-shared=no --without-iconv)
• libxslt-1.1.31 (or later) (--prefix=/usr/local --enable-shared=no)
• pkg-config 0.29.2 (or later) (--prefix=/usr/local)
• jdk-7u80-macosx-x64

You will notice that the recommended version of epm for OS X is 4.3 (or later); This is because previous versions required the long deprecated PackageMaker application (as well as PackageMaker being installed in a hardcoded location). Starting with epm 4.3, the official OS X pkgbuild utility is supported, removing the need for PackageMaker. AOO specific versions of epm and dmake are available on Github.

Installed in /opt/local via MacPorts:

• autoconf (symlinked to /usr/local/bin)
• gnutar (symlinked to /usr/local/bin)
• perl5 (symlinked to /usr/local/bin)
• subversion
• git

You will also need to install the required Perl packages noted in the general build page since OS X does not include them by default. If you don't want to mix System and User modifications, you can use MacPorts/HomeBrew to install Perl and use this user-land version for these extra packages.

Local Environment Requirements:

• Make sure that /usr/local/bin is in your PATH.
• Set and export JAVA_HOME (export JAVA_HOME=$(/usr/libexec/java_home -v 1.7))
• Ensure that these env variables are also correct (and exported):
  • ANT_HOME=/usr/local/share/java/apache-ant
  • LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib
  • C_INCLUDE_PATH=/usr/local/include
  • CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH=/usr/local/include

Configure and Build

./configure   \
       --enable-verbose \
       --with-openldap \
       --enable-category-b \
       --enable-bundled-dictionaries \
       --enable-wiki-publisher \
       --without-junit \
       --with-jdk-home="$JAVA_HOME" \
       --with-ant-home="$ANT_HOME" \
       --with-epm=/usr/local/bin/epm \
       --with-dmake-path=/usr/local/bin/dmake \
       --without-stlport \
       --with-package-format="dmg" \
       --disable-systray \
       --with-alloc=internal \
       --with-lang="${LANGS}" 

The LANGS env variable should contain the list of languages you wish to build for (e.g. "en-GB en-US es eu fi").

Continue with the standard, platform independent build instructions. Copies of the official build scripts (and their corresponding config.log outputs) can be found here.