Building on Windows
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Overview
For general information on how to build Apache OpenOffice from source code, see the platform independent page.
Template:Documentation/Windows For building Apache OpenOffice the Cygwin environment is required. Cygwin is a set of programs that run on Windows but emulate a complete Unix command line environment.
As compiler we use Microsoft's Visual C++, not the gcc from Cygwin. Therefore Visual Studio Express can be used for debugging.
To use this document you should be familiar with a bourne command line interpreter (sh or bash), but you need not be a UNIX shell wizard. Template:Documentation/Tip
Build requirements
Additionally to the general build requirements you need
| What | Where to get | How to install |
|---|---|---|
| Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 | ||
| Cygwin | http://www.cygwin.com, minimum version: 1.5.10, preferred: current version] | (default) |
| Visual C++ 2008 Express
(C/C++ compiler, debugger) |
http://www.microsoft.com/express/download/. Free download, basic install, no optional parts required | --with-cl-home= |
| Windows SDK for Windows Server 2008 | http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=F26B1AA4-741A-433A-9BE5-FA919850BDBF&displaylang=en
This is either a DVD image or a net installer. You can either mount the DVD with a suitable tool, burn it do a DVD or use tools like winrar or 7zip to extract files from the ISO file directly. You don't need to install samples or documentation (saves a lot of disk space). It will also install the .NET Framework 3.5 SDK. It might be best to install the Windows SDK into the default directory, and if not that into one without capital letters in the path. |
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| GDI+ Redistributable | http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=6A63AB9C-DF12-4D41-933C-BE590FEAA05A&displaylang=en. Genuine Windows Validation required. | main/external/gdiplus |
| dbghelp.dll | http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=CD1FC4B2-0885-47F4-AF45-7FD5E14DB6C0
The exact download URL may have changed. In that case you have to search Microsoft's website. |
main/external/dbghelp |
| Runtime libraries | Microsoft_VC90_CRT_x86.msm and policy_9_0_Microsoft_VC90_CRT_x86.msm for non debug builds and Microsoft_VC90_DebugCRT_x86.msm and policy_9_0_Microsoft_VC90_DebugCRT_x86.msm for debug builds
You can find these files in your directory |
main/external/msm90 |
Requirements for optional features:
| What | Where to get | How to install | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mozilla binary distribution | http://tools.openoffice.org/moz_prebuild/OOo3.2 (WNTMSCIruntime.zip,WNTMSCIlib.zip,WNTMSCIinc.zip) Needed as prebuilts for module moz (SeaMonkey) as the current used SeaMonkey version 1.1.4 does not support a build with Visual Studio C++ 2008 compiler. | main/moz/zipped | |
| Runtime libraries 7.1 | msvcr71.dll and msvcp71.dll for Mozilla libraries. Search for them on the web or on your PC. These files should be named as all lower case. Sometimes when downloaded they are upper case and this will cause 'file not found' errors towards the end of the build)) | main/external/msvcp71 | |
| Runtime libraries 8.0 | msvcp80.dll and msvcr80.dll for Mozilla libraries. Search for them on the web or on your PC. | main/external/msvcp80 | |
| Microsoft DirectX SDK | http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=6812 | --with-directx-home= | |
| Nullsoft Scriptable Install System (NSIS) | http://nsis.sourceforge.net/
If NSIS is available, a self contained Windows installer is created in addition to the MSI installer files. It used to be that newer version of NSIS broke the build (see Issue 85657 ), but it seems that it now works for NSIS up to 2.3.7. |
