Building on MacOSX
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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 newer)
What | Where to get / Remarks |
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Mac OS X version 10.7 (aka Lion) or later | provided by Apple |
Xcode version 4.5 or later. | Use the App Store application to get and install it. If you got Xcode 5.x some extra steps are needed.
You can also download it free of charge, but a registration at the Apple Developer Connection site is required for that. |
MacOSX SDK | SDKs compatible with OSX 10.7 are automatically provided by installing XCode 4.5 or newer |
gnutar | OSX<=10.8 contains the tool directly, for OSX>=10.9 some extra steps are needed. |
Xcode 5 specific requirements
What | Where to get / Remarks |
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Xcode commandline tools | run this command in a terminal
sudo xcode-select --install |
autoconf | Run these commands in a terminal
curl -OL http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/autoconf/autoconf-2.69.tar.bz2 tar xvjf autoconf-2.69.tar.bz2 pushd autoconf-2.69 ./configure --prefix=/usr/local make sudo make install popd |
OSX 10.9 (or newer) specific requirements
What | Where to get / Remarks |
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gnutar | Run these commands in a terminal
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 |