Difference between revisions of "Prepared Build Images"

Revision as of 09:04, 22 December 2008

Building OpenOffice.org can be a challenging task not only for people new to the build process. With a prepared machine it is easier to get a build environment running and therefor people can start contributing to project faster without the obstacle of building.

Here is a list of virtual machine images that contain a complete and ready to start OOo build environment. If you have prepared such build environment on a free operating system, feel free to add it to the list here.

Ubuntu Intrepid

This harddisk image for VirtualBox contains a complete Ubuntu operating system, all necessary prerequisites and the sourcecode of the developer milestone DEV300_m35.

• Download and install VirtualBox
• Download and extract the VDI image (could take some time, the extracted image is 16 GiB large!)
• Create a new VM in VirtualBox with at least 512 MiB RAM
• Add the VDI image as boot disk to the created VM
• Boot it and have fun!
• If you need help read the README file on the Desktop and post your question to one of the mailing lists

Download via BitTorrent 1.4 GiB

Suggestions

• Dynamically growing harddisk images
• Scripts for simplified packaging and installation
• More --disable switches for faster builds
• Baseline environments
• More Linux flavours