Mac OS X
Welcome to OpenOffice.org for Mac OS X development pages!
For end user support please see the official Mac page. Initial support request can be sent to the users@openoffice.org mailing list. If they cannot help you, please try at the Mac OpenOffice.org mailing list at mac@porting.openoffice.org. All bugs/build errors in the mac version and mac website errors can be sent here too.
Are you new and want to be a developer for OpenOffice.org Mac OS X? Then read the Introduction to Mac OS X porting
Developer news are available at Mac porting project news
Running development snapshots
If you are interested in just trying out the cutting-edge development builds of OpenOffice.org for Mac OS X, the available development snapshot are listed in Mac OS X Development Builds -page.
Building OpenOffice.org
First a little word of warning: OpenOffice.org is neither a small nor a easy codebase to work with. The source code size is 1.5Gb and full build will take around 3Gb of disk space. The build time can be more than one full day, depending how fast your machine is.
If you have patience and good developments skills, go a head and read the Mac OS X Build Instructions
Known problems in OpenOffice.org X11 builds for Mac OS X
We are maintaining a List of OpenOffice.org Mac OS X issues and problems with the current stable and developer builds that are important to fix, but we have not been able to fix yet.