How to build Symphony's source code

Symphony officially can be built on the following platforms

System	Architecture
Windows XP,	x86
Linux - Ubuntu 11.04,	x86
Linux - Suse 10,	x86
Mac OS X - 10.5/10.6,	intel x86

It's easy for developer to reuse Apache OpenOffice's build environment on Symphony's source code. This article assumes that you have already made a successful build for Apache OpenOffice 3.4. If you have not, please refer to the following pages.

• Basic Concepts
• Build Requirements
• Building on Windows
• Building on MacOSX
• Building on Linux

Getting Symphony's source code

You can get Symphony's source code from ???. Please make sure that all the source code dirs are under SRC_ROOT and you can locate to all the modules at SRC_ROOT/main

Building Symphony on Windows

You can make a full build for Symphony with cygwin on Windows platform.

Software requirements

• Windows XP + SP3 / Windows 7
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 + SP1
• JDK 1.6
  • You can get it from http://java.sun.com/javase/6
• Cygwin 1.7
• Ant
• MSSDK
• DirectX
• NSIS
• Mozilla build tools
  • You can get it from http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/libraries/win32/MozillaBuildSetup-1.6.exe
• Microsoft .Net framework V3.5
• dgbhelper.dll
  • You can get it from http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=12745. Please put it in $SRC_ROOT/main/external/dbghelp
• vcredist_x86.exe vcredist_x64.exe
  • You can get them from http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=13523 and http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=8328. Please put it in $SRC_ROOT/main/external/vcredist
• gdiplus.dll
  • You can get it from http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=18909. Please put it in $SRC_ROOT/main/external/gdiplus
• Mozilla binary distributions
  • You can get WNTMSCIinc.zip / WNTMSCIlib.zip / WNTMSCIruntime.zip from http://www.openoffice.org/tools/moz_prebuild/OOo3.2/. Please put them in $SRC_ROOT/main/moz/zipped

Starting build

You can run the commands below to start a full build on Windows. Please follow the configure swtichers strictly. Symphony does not officially support any other configure switcher.

 cd $SRC_ROOT/main
 autoconf
 ./configure \
     --with-cl-home="/cygdrive/c/dev.tools/vc.2008/VC" \
     --with-mspdb-path="/cygdrive/c/dev.tools/vc.2008/Common7/IDE" \
     --with-asm-home="/cygdrive/c/dev.tools/vc.2008/VC/bin" \
     --with-frame-home="/cygdrive/c/dev.tools/MSSDK_v6.1" \
     --with-psdk-home="/cygdrive/c/dev.tools/MSSDK_v6.1" \
     --with-midl-path="/cygdrive/c/dev.tools/MSSDK_v6.1/Bin" \
     --with-csc-path="/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/Microsoft.NET/Framework/v3.5" \
     --with-jdk-home="/cygdrive/c/dev.tools/jdk_1.6" \
     --with-ant-home="/cygdrive/c/dev.tools/apache-ant-1.7.0" \
     --with-directx-home="/cygdrive/c/dev.tools/directx" \
     --with-nsis-path="/cygdrive/c/dev.tools/NSIS" \
     --with-dmake-url="http://dmake.apache-extras.org.codespot.com/files/dmake-4.12.1.tar.bz2" \
     --with-epm-url="http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/ftp.easysw.com/pub/epm/3.7/epm-3.7-source.tar.gz" \
     --with-mozilla-build="/cygdrive/c/dev.tools/mozilla-build" \
     --with-use-shell=bash \
     --without-junit \
     --disable-build-mozilla \
     --disable-odk \
     --enable-category-b \
     --enable-bundled-dictionaries
 ./bootstrap
 source winenv.set.sh
 cd instsetoo_native/
 build --all -P4

You can finnaly get the installation packages at

 $SRC_ROOT/main/instsetoo_native/wntmsci12.pro/OpenOffice/archive/install/en-US/OOo_3.4.0_Win_x86_install-arc_en-US.zip
 $SRC_ROOT/main/instsetoo_native/wntmsci12.pro/OpenOffice/msi/install/en-US/setup.exe