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.

This description refers to an OpenSolaris 2008.11 (svn_100) or higher.

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>

• FSWxorg-headers
• IPSgawk (from blastwave.org)
• IPSpkgconfig (from blastwave.org)
• SUNWant (currently OOo configure is not able to detect the system ANT properly, you have to manually install ANT and use --with-ant-home)
• SUNWbison
• SUNWcurl (if you build with --with-system-curl)
• SUNWflexlex
• 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)
• SUNWgmake (although not required to build OOo, it is necessary to compile the OOo dmake...)
• SUNWgnu-gperf
• SUNWicu (if you build with --with-system-icu, currently not working)
• SUNWicud (if you build with --with-system-icu, currently not working)
• 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=/usr/bin:/opt/SunStudioExpress/bin:$PATH

Note that the command above makes sure that Perl does not use GNU make, which can cause trouble at this point. Later you will need GNU make to build OOo.

 # /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
CXX=/opt/SunStudioExpress/bin/CC
PKG_CONFIG=/opt/csw/bin/pkg-config
PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/lib/pkgconfig

Special switches

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

./configure --disable-cups --disable-mozilla --disable-Xaw --disable-randr --with-gnu-patch=/usr/bin/gpatch --with-gnu-cp=/usr/gnu/bin/cp --disable-gtk --with-system-curl --with-jdk-home=/usr/jdk/instances/jdk1.6.0 --with-use-shell=bash

Please note that some of these switches may disable common features of OOo, but currently there is no practical way to enable them (if you know one, please edit this document).

Known issues

If you meet unresolved dependencies in libjawt.so, this issue might be interesting for you.