Beware! The build instructions for OpenOffice.org 1.1.x (and older) are different!
Last changes made: $Date: 2008/11/13 15:06:36 $
This document describes the requirements and actions that you need to build OpenOffice.org on Windows using Cygwin shell.
Commands you have to type on the keyboard follow this syntax throughout this document:
config_office> ./configure
In this example, the script configure is executed in the directory config_office.
Since OpenOffice.org 2.1.x (SRC680_m175) it is possible to use bash instead of tcsh. This has to be enabled with the --with-use-shell configure switch. The following instructions are for the tcsh case but the savy *NIX user should be able to guess the needed changes. The environment file for bash adds an additional .sh suffix to the tcsh environment filename.
$SRC_ROOT will denote the directory in which the source code of OpenOffice.org is stored.
Table of Contents
This section is meant as a reminder or checklist for those who have some experience in building OpenOffice.org. Everybody else should jump to the Build Requirements section.
Even experienced builders are well advised to check the release notes at http://development.openoffice.org/releases/2.0.0rc2.html and the section Build Requirements in this document to inform yourself about changes since the previous releases.
Detailed step-by-step build descriptions are given from the next section on.
Overview of Performing a Full Build
To perform a full build, you need to follow these steps:
- Get the source code, either from the download webpage (http://download.openoffice.org/680/index.html) or alternatively via a check-out from the cvs tree against a release tag, e.g. OpenOffice_2_0_0.
- Run the
configure script to check all requirements and to create the script winenv.set. - Source the
winenv.set script to set all environment variables. Please see the last screen from the configure script for more specific information on setting up for your platform.
- Create the build tools using
bootstrap. - Recompute tcsh's directory hash using
rehash. - Build typing
dmake in $SRC_ROOT, or build --all in the instetoo_native module, or build followed by deliver in the individual modules.
For detailed build instructions, see the section
Building a Full Build of the Office Suite in this document. The installation procedure is described
at the end of this document.
Build Requirements
Before you start building, you must ensure that your system satisfies the recommended software and hardware requirements for the type of system you are working on. For Windows, these are as follows:
Software Requirements
- Windows 2000 SP 2 or higher ,Windows XP or Windows Vista
- A Microsoft Visual C++ .NET Compiler . MS Visual C++ .net 2003 (not for free available) is currently used for the official builds but Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition (free download, as in free beer) is also expected (but not guaranteed) to work. See additional build instructions at: MS Visual C++ 2005 Express
- A Microsoft Platform SDK. The Sun provided builds use the following parts of the February 2003 version of the Microsoft Platform SDK (including the 64-bit build environment if possible): The MDAC SDK, the Core SDK, the Internet Development SDK and the Windows Installer SDK.
Unfortunately that SDK is no longer available for download from Microsoft. The current version of the Platform SDK (Microsoft Windows Server 2003 SP1 Platform SDK - April 2005 Edition) can be downloaded from here. The following parts have to be installed: - Microsoft Windows Core SDK
(The 64-bit Build Environment / 64-bit Tools are not needed) - Microsoft Web Workshop (IE) SDK
- Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS) SDK
- Microsoft Data Access Services (MDAC) SDK
- Microsoft DirectShow SDK
- Platform SDK Redistributable: GDI+
- A DirectX 9.0 SDK. The Sun provided builds use DirectX 9.0 SDK Update - (Summer 2004) but that is no longer available for download from Microsoft. The current version of the DirectX SDK
- DirectX SDK - (February 2006)
can be downloaded here.
- A Java 2 SDK is required. JDK 1.5
Note: Java 6.0 (JDK 1.6.0) is supported starting from DEV300_m13 (OOo 3)
- Cygwin Toolkit from http://www.cygwin.com. Use at least Cygwin DLL version 1.5.10. The official information about using setup.exe and installing Cygwin are available at: http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/setup-net.html. More help and information on the Cygwin tools can be found at http://website.openoffice.org/support/en/howtos/1.html.
When installing Cygwin make sure you set the "Default Text File Type" to "Unix". This is the default setting.
Not all Cygwin packages are needed to build OpenOffice.org, but make sure that at least all the packages from the base category and the following packages are installed.
bison
flex
make
patch
perl
And also: gcc
rxvt
tcsh
unzip
zip
Important Note: Within the Cygwin Toolkit, three executables might be realised as symlinks, namely awk.exe, gunzip.exe and tar.exe. This might lead to a break of the build later, and the symlinks should be replaced with copies of the command they link to. Check, in a cygwin shell, with ls -l /bin/awk.exe whether awk.exe is a symlink. For instance, awk.exe could be a link to gawk.exe, in which case you should copy gawk.exe to awk.exe: cd /bin; cp gawk.exe awk.exe. Take similar action for unzip.exe and tar.exe. Important Note: If you are using cygwin-1.5.18, you may have to download a development snapshot of the cygwin1.dll from http://cygwin.com/snapshots/, please see issue i#51560# for more details. If you do not do this, your build will hang while building 'instsetoo_native'.
- The gpc general polygon clipper library release 2.31, located at http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/aig/staff/alan/software/. Download and unpack the tarball. You should have the files gpc.c and gpc.h in
$SRC_ROOT/external/gpc.
- The Microsoft Layer for Unicode (unicows.dll). Get it from the Microsoft site and put it into
$SRC_ROOT/external/unicows. (Note: Microsoft seems to enjoy changing the exact location of this file. You may have to search Microsoft's website.) Last time it was seen here.
- The dbghelp.dll from Microsoft. Get it from the Microsoft site and put it into
$SRC_ROOT/external/dbghelp. (Note: You may have to search Microsoft's website.) Last time it was seen here.
- Ant Is required. This is a Java make utility.
- Nullsoft Scriptable Install System (NSIS)
This is optional, if available a self contained Windows installer is created in addition to the MSI installer files.
- Mozilla libraries
Some Mozilla libraries are needed. Choose one of the following three options. - Build the libraries
Get the source from here, copy it into $SRC_ROOT/moz/download and configure will detect the source archive. - Use prebuild libraries
Place WNTMSCI{inc,lib,runtile}.zip into $SRC_ROOT/moz/zipped. You have to configure with --disable-build-mozilla to enable the use of the prebuild libraries. The files can be found here or can be reused if the packages were build following the instructions of the previous point. In the latter case they can be found in $SRC_ROOT/moz/wntmsci10.pro of a successfull build. - Don't use the libraries
By using the --disable-mozilla switch for configure you waive the extra functionality.
Perl Module requirements
This is a list of the perl modules that have to be installed.
Important Note: No, these modules are not automatically included in the Cygwin perl installation. Use the link above to learn how to install them.
Please note that CPAN is not able to deal with usernames containing spaces. To work around this fact, when CPAN asks you to specify the CPAN build and cache directory, change the default suggestion to /cpan.
| Module: | Used for: |
| Archive::Zip | packing image lists, evtl. for further zipping needs |
| XML::Parser | expat based parser for the new XML based build lists |
Perl - Additional CWS tooling requirements
For committers who want to use the CWS tooling
| Module: | Used for: |
| Crypt::SSLeay | for SSL encrypted SOAP connections. Note: It needs the openssl-devel cygwin package to be installed. |
| LWP::UserAgent | a requirement for SOAP::Lite that is not automatically installed. Install it or the install of SOAP::Lite will fail. |
| SOAP::Lite | access the SOAP based CWS webservice. |
Hardware Requirements
- Intel Pentium II PC
- 128 MB RAM (More recommended)
- 4 GB free disk space (8 GB for crashdump)
External Components
The code contains some further external components which are already provided. If you are interested in details about these, look at the External Components webpage at http://tools.openoffice.org/ext_comp.html.
Get the source code
You have two options to get the source code:
- Download the source code tarball (http://download.openoffice.org/3.0.0/source.html), e.g.
OOo_3.0.0_src_core.tar.gz in case of the 3.0 stable release. Unpack the tarballs as follows:
> tar -xvzf OOo_3.0.0_src_core.tar.gz
> cd OOO300m9
This will be $SRC_ROOT from now on. Please check the OpenOffice.org Wiki for more detailed information about the source tarballs.
- Another possibility is to check out the code from the cvs tree. If you don't have a username and password, you can still do a checkout as
anoncvs: > cvs -d:pserver:anoncvs@anoncvs.services.openoffice.org:/cvs login
Just press enter when prompted for the password. > cd $SRC_ROOT
$SRC_ROOT> cvs /
-d:pserver:anoncvs@anoncvs.services.openoffice.org:/cvs /
co -r OpenOffice_3_0_0 OpenOffice3
The non-bold slash means that the command should be in one line. It is possible to update an already existing older copy to a newer release: $SRC_ROOT> cvs /
-d:pserver:anoncvs@anoncvs.services.openoffice.org:/cvs /
update -r OpenOffice_3_0_0 OpenOffice3
- If you're only interested in building individual modules, you won't need the entire source code. You can check out individual modules from the cvs tree:
$SRC_ROOT> cvs /
-d:pserver:anoncvs@anoncvs.services.openoffice.org:/cvs /
co -r OpenOffice_3_0_0 (module-name)
-
A note on the tags (i.e. the argument to the -r option in the cvs commands listed above): If HEAD is used as a tag, you will get the newest latest source code. This, however, will most likely not build since development is going on there. See http://tools.openoffice.org#CWS for a description of the development process with child workspaces and Environment Information System for the current child workspaces and milestones.
Generating the Build Environment and Build Tools
The configure script to check/prepare the build environment. It checks that all software, hardware, and system requirements for the build are satisfied, and creates a configuration file called winenv.set that is used to set all necessary build environment variables. See the example below.
This configuration file is created in the SRC_ROOT directory. A top-level makefile script makefile.mk and the script bootstrap from the config-office directory are moved into SRC_ROOT as well. This is due to technical reasons: The SRC_ROOT directory in the cvs tree can only hold directories. On the other hand, the top-level makefile.mk should logically be placed in the top-level directory SRC_ROOT. The cvs tree holds these files in config_office and configure copies them up.
Before running configure, make sure that all needed Programs are in the system path or start configure with the appropriate command line switches.
The following should demonstrate in detail what steps have to be done to set up the environment. For this examples we assume that
- the source code is in
C:\OOO300_m9 - JDK 1.4.1_02 is installed in
C:\j2sdk1.4.1_02 - the Microsoft Compiler is located in
C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~1.NET\Vc7 (or c:\Programme\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\Vc7) - the Microsoft SDK is located in
C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~5
Other Shells - Example
You are able to enable the use of tcsh with --with-use-shell=tcsh or the use of bash with --with-use-shell=bash.
To run the configure script, type the following command:
$SRC_ROOT> cd config_office
config_office> ./configure --with-cl-home="/cygdrive/c/Programme/Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003/Vc7"
--with-jdk-home=/cygdrive/c/j2sdk1.4.1_02 --with-use-shell=tcsh
There are a number of options that you can use with the configure script. To display these options, type the following command:
config_office> ./configure --help
After running configure, you have to continue in a tcsh shell:
$SRC_ROOT> tcsh
To create the dmake make utility that is needed for the build of OpenOffice.org type the following command:
$SRC_ROOT> ./bootstrap
Now source the configuration file which sets all environment variables:
$SRC_ROOT> source winenv.set
Don't forget to run
$SRC_ROOT> rehash
afterwards.
If you experiment with the newest sources from the cvs-tree, mind that updates to the configure process may not happen via updates of configure (the script file) but via the files configure.in and set_soenv.in. The configure script itself is created from configure.in using the autoreconf command. The perl script set_soenv is created when you run configure from set_soenv.in.
If you need to modify or create a correct configure you would run commands like the following:
$SRC_ROOT> cd config_office
config_office> cvs update configure.in
config_office> autoreconf
To update the
configure script. If you only use code from the snapshot releases on the web, you don't need to be concerned about this.
Build Instructions
Building a Full Build of the Office Suite
Now you are ready to build OpenOffice.org. To build the entire suite, all you have to do (after having created the environment as described above) is to run dmake from the top-level directory. This may take several hours.
$SRC_ROOT> dmake
If you wish to control the build more you can perform a build with local install sets or tarballs.
- instsetoo_native will create rpm's or the actual delivery package for your platform.
- instsetoo will create a single tar file containing the build however it is deprecated.
cd $SRC_ROOT
cd instetoo_native
build --all
If you decide to rebuild a module or build each module individually (mind dependencies!), you will have to use the build tool. A subsequent deliver will copy all created binaries, libraries etc. into the solver tree:
$SRC_ROOT/(module)> build
$SRC_ROOT/(module)> deliver
The following table shows the time required to build on a system with a particular specification. You can use these details to estimate the time required to build on your system.
| Architecture | Intel |
| Processor | Athlon XP1700 |
| Processor speed | 1466 MHz |
| RAM | 512 MB |
| Hard Disk | 160 GB 7200 RPM IDE |
| Time (for SRC680_m86) | ~17 h |
Building a Project with Debug Information
To rebuild a complete project with debug information, remove all object files by removing the wntmsci10.pro directory. Then run build with the debug option set to true:
$SRC_ROOT/(module)> rm -rf
$SRC_ROOT/(module)> build debug=true
Instructions to Build an Installation Set
The build process (started with a top-level dmake or build --all in $SRC_ROOT/instsetoo_native) will create an installation sets in English. A simple build in $SRC_ROOT/instsetoo_native will also create the installation sets, provided all other modules are already built.
If you have built an installation set earlier and want to re-build it, please delete the local outpath first:
$SRC_ROOT/instsetoo_native> rm -rf wntmsci10.pro
The English installation set will be located at $SRC_ROOT/instsetoo_native/wntmsci10.pro/OpenOffice/install/en-US. Execute the setup binary to install:
$SRC_ROOT> cd instsetoo_native/wntmsci10.pro/OpenOffice/install/en-US
en-US> setup.exe
The en-US in the path names indicates that the localization is American English. This value corresponds to the language tags defined by RFC 1766 (Tags for the Identification of Languages). The German installation set will be located in a de subdirectory. This scheme holds true for all localizations you may have chosen explicitly (see next section
Building Localized Versions of OpenOffice.org).
For a network installation, use the -net option to setup. Details on the network installation process can be found at http://installation.openoffice.org/proposals/netinstall.html in the installation project webpage.
For information on creating an automated installation script and create a response file.
Building Localized Versions of OpenOffice.org
Running the configure script with the --with-lang option will introduce the build of additional language resources. This switch accepts one or more RFC 1766 language tags as arguments, unfortunately not all languages are supported. Check the value of the completelangiso macro in $SRC_ROOT/solenv/inc/postset.mk for all the currently supported language tags.
Example: --with-lang="de fr" enables the build of the localized german and french version.
The environment variable WITH_LANG will then contain the language tags of the additional (en-US will always be build) languages.
Building Localized Language Packs
If you build additional localized languages it is possible to generate Language Packs that contain only the changes needed to add the additional language to an OpenOffice.org of a different language.
The following commands will generate language packs languages that were specified with the --with-lang switch during the configure phase. Note that you can only build the language packs after you have build the complete office with all selected languages.
$SRC_ROOT> cd instsetoo_native/util; dmake ooolanguagepack
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