OpenSolaris Build Instructions

The page should be filled with useful information about how to build a recent version of OOo on the OpenSolaris platform. Some mailing list postings showed that this may not be an easy task.

Prerequisites

If you have a freshly installed OpenSolaris you may need the following packages to build OpenOffice.org. A package can be installed with:

 pfexec pkg install <packagename>

• IPSpkgconfig (from blastwave.network.com)
• SUNWgcc (if you build with gcc, not with Sun Studio. Note: this gcc package is linked against Sun ld and currently won't work for OOo)
• SUNWgnu-gperf
• SUNWsunstudioexpress
• SUNWsvn (if you like to checkout sources via Subversion)

You will need the Archive::Zip.pm Perl module which does not ship with OpenSolaris per default. You can manually install it (and its prerequisites) using CPAN with invoking the following commands:

 # export PATH=$PATH:/opt/SunStudioExpress/bin
 # /usr/perl5/bin/perl -MCPAN -e 'shell'
 cpan> install Archive::Zip
 cpan> exit

As on all other platforms you need the unowinreg.dll from http://tools.openoffice.org/unowinreg_prebuild/680/ .

Environment variables

CC=/opt/SunStudioExpress/bin/cc
PKG_CONFIG=/opt/csw/bin/pkg-config

Special switches

As it requires more work you may want to disable specific features on OpenSolaris. The following configure switches make life easier:

 --disable-cups