Documentation/Building Guide AOO/Step by step

This page is intended as a collection of simple step-by-step recipes to build Apache OpenOffice from source code. A more thorough explanation of what the individual steps do and why they are necessary can be found in the building guide.

Ubuntu 12.04

• Setup VirtualBox with Ubuntu 12.04 64 bit on Windows7 64bit host. A native installation is of course fine, too.
• Let updater update ca. 380 packages. Restart.
• Get the source. You can start with the source release or by checking out from SVN:

Source release	SVN
Build from source release if you want to build OpenOffice once but don't want to do any development.	Build from SVN if you want to development work with OpenOffice.
Download AOO 3.4.1 source tarball from http://people.apache.org/~jsc/developer-snapshots/r1372282/src/aoo-3.4.1-incubating-src.tar.bz2 Optional: Download signature from http://people.apache.org/~jsc/developer-snapshots/r1372282/src/aoo-3.4.1-incubating-src.tar.bz2.asc and verify the source tarball with gpg --verify aoo-3.4.1-incubating-src.tar.bz2.asc \ aoo-3.4.1-incubating-src.tar.bz2 Note that you have to have the keys already imported to your key chain. The keys can be found on the download page: http://www.apache.org/dist/incubator/ooo/KEYS Unpack source: cd /tmp tar -xjf ~/Downloads/aoo-3.4.1-incubating-src.tar.bz2 cd aoo-3.4.1/main	Start with creating a parent directory for the source code. Don't use /tmp because that is deleted on every boot: sudo mkdir /source sudo chown <your-user-name> /source cd /source Install subversion and checkout the source: sudo apt-get install subversion svn co https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/ooo/trunk aoo-trunk cd aoo-trunk/main

• Install requirements (this will also install packages that are not listed):

 sudo apt-get install g++ gcc bison flex libarchive-zip-perl libcups2-dev \
      libpam0g-dev gperf libfreetype6-dev libxaw7-dev libfontconfig1-dev \
      libxrandr-dev patch libgconf2-dev libgnomevfs2-dev ant libgtk2.0-dev \
      junit junit4 libidl-dev liborbit2-dev openjdk-6-jdk libwww-perl \
      libxml-parser-perl autoconf libssl-dev

• Run autoconf to generate configure script:

 autoconf

• Configure (see the building guide section on configuration for further options):

 ./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 \
     --disable-odk \
     --disable-binfilter

• Finish configuration and download missing tarballs and extensions:

 ./bootstrap

• Include the configured environment:

 source LinuxX86-64Env.Set.sh

• Build:

 cd instsetoo_native/
 build --all

This may take a while to complete. Several hours are not uncommong. To speed things up you may want to run 'build' like this

 build --all -P<n> -- -P<n>

to start a parallel build. Replace <n> with the number of CPU cores.

• Install:

 sudo dpkg -i unxlngx6.pro/OpenOffice/deb/install/en-US/DEBS/*.deb
 sudo dpkg -i unxlngx6.pro/OpenOffice/deb/install/en-US/DEBS/desktop-integration/openoffice.org3.4-debian-menus_3.4-9593_all.deb

• Start Apache OpenOffice:

 /opt/openoffice.org3/program/soffice