[Open Office] ooo-build on Windows

[michael meeks]

Hi David,

On Wed, 2005-10-12 at 13:41 +0200, David Fraser wrote:
> After successfully getting OpenOffice.org building on Windows with the 
> standard source, I'm trying with ooo-build so that it can handle my 
> patches etc

	Nice :-)

> I had a few ideas to make this easier, and thought I would bounce them 
> past here for review (especially since I don't really know autoconf)

	Sure.

> Firstly, it would be nice to autodetect building on Windows... patch 
> attached to issue a warning if you're using cygwin and don't say 
> --with-win32

	Right - it'd of course be nice to warn & just turn on with_win32 or
whatever - either way; I committed your patch for that: thanks.

> Secondly, on Windows you don't want KDE and Gnome support... unless I'm 
> mistaken. configure seems to assume you do unless you explicitly deny 
> it. so attached a patch to change this so win32 implies --disable-kde 
> and --disable-gtk

	Sure - as it happens they do no harm - and they also do some good: they
enable the building of the new icon sets / artwork which allow OO.o to
look (IMHO) rather nicer.

> I was also wondering, it seems like the --with-ooo-builddir flag allows 
> you to run on top of an existing tree. Will this cause problems if 
> you've already been building on that tree or can you just migrate a 
> standard build into ooo-build using this?

	I would just move/copy/symlink the build into build/src680-m123 or
whatever - then it should apply the patches on top of that & do a
relatively sane incremental build.

	Great to have you hacking on this too though, it's somewhat under-used
as you can see :-)

	Thanks,

		Michael.

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