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• Resources

OpenOffice.org development for Windows: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Windows

Building OOo with Cygwin on Windows: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Building_OOo_with_Cygwin_on_Windows

• Who is working where?

CDOT Computer Status - Who is working where

Student Name	CDOT Computer Name	Operation	Status
Ryan Wang (irc:rmwang)	Local machine	Preparing instruction	Setting up the environment
Fred Wang (irc:wfred)	Local machine		Setting up the environment

Currently trying to build on a 32bit Windows 2008 system.

Let me know if you are interested working together!

- Ryan

Getting the Required Tools

• TortoiseSVN Version Control Software download(32bit Installer, 17.8 MB)

• Microsoft Windows Server 2008 (Under the MSDN tab)
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition (Under the MSDN tab)

You can download Microsoft applications from the Seneca College ACS download page.

Click on the MSDNAA License on the left panel of the download page in order to acquire license keys.

• Cygwin - Linux-like environment for Windows
• Java 2 SDK, Standard Edition 1.4.2_11 for Windows - It will be installed on "C:\j2sdk1.4.2_11" as default. Do not change the location!
• Apache Ant 1.6.5 binary - Open the .zip file and copy the "apache-ant-1.6.5-bin" folder to "C:\"
• ActiveState Perl Win32 x86 Installer

Getting the Source Code

OpenOffice source anonymous checkout using TortoiseSVN:

• Create a folder where you want to download the source.
• Right-click the folder and choose 'SVN Checkout'
• Type-in this URL. svn://svn.services.openoffice.org/ooo/tags/DEV300_m40
• Click OK to start downloading.

Downloading speed seems to be fairly good.

It shows speed of 300 to 600 kBytes/s with Rogers Cable.

...
Added: C:\OpenOfficeSource\cppcanvas\util\cppcanvas.flt  
Added: C:\OpenOfficeSource\cppcanvas\util\makefile.mk  
Completed: At revision: 267579  
584.80 MBytes transferred in 37 minute(s) and 5 second(s)
Added:75247

Additional files (Copy files to the specified folder)

• Platform SDK Redistributable: GDI+ (/external/gdiplus)
• unicows.dll (/external/unicows)
• instmsiw.exe and instmsia.exe (/external/dbghelp)
• GPC - General Polygon Clipper library (Unzip to /external/gpc)
• WNTMSCIinc.zip, WNTMSCIlib.zip and WNTMSCIruntime.zip (/moz/zipped)
• C:\Program Files\Common Files\Merge Modules\Microsoft_VC90_CRT_x86.msm (/external/msm90)
• C:\Program Files\Common Files\Merge Modules\policy_9_0_Microsoft_VC90_CRT_x86.msm (/external/msm90)
• C:\Program Files\Common Files\Merge Modules\Microsoft_VC90_DebugCRT_x86.msm (/external/msm90)
• C:\Program Files\Common Files\Merge Modules\policy_9_0_Microsoft_VC90_DebugCRT_x86.msm (/external/msm90)
• C:\Windows\System32\msvcr71.dll (/external/msvcp71)
• C:\Windows\System32\msvcp71.dll (/external/msvcp71) Note that the filename is lowercase!

Setting Environment Variables

• Run Cygwin terminal and apply the follows:

export WINDOWS_VISTA_PSDK=TRUE
export DISABLE_ATL=TRUE
export DISABLE_ACTIVEX=TRUE

• Additional Perl Modules Installation with CPAN

Start CPAN and install additional modules by typing following commands in the Cygwin terminal

export FTP_PASSIVE="1"
perl -MCPAN -e shell

to be continued...