LO Windows SDK - Compiler error: Unkown Platform

[Fatih Yegin]

Doctor, is there any hope?

As an aside, here's how I setup my configuration:

1. Install LO and sdk to default installation paths*

2. Move them to "C:\"

3. Install msys, and don't forget to update the msys and msys mingw64
terminals with `pacman -Syu`**

4. (Optional) Make msys shortcuts on "USER_NAME\Desktop" (especially
mingw64 one)

5. Install cmake according to this link:
https://www.msys2.org/docs/cmake/

6. Run setupsdkenv<...>.batch, ideally from cmd***

7. Run msys's mingw64 environment from this terminal with `cmd /C ...`,
preferably from the desktop shortcut****

8. Configuration should be ready now.


While writing these, it gave me an idea by the way. I have never tried
to move the LO & sdk to msys root (C:\msys64\). In theory, if I setup
the environment variables correctly, I should be able to compile the
examples from msys & infer from their compile commands.

I can't try this rightaway, however I will try to send a follow up e-
mail when I have spare time.

Kind regards,
Fatih Yegin


*This is important as otherwise installation will break with bunch of
missing dll errors due to the ancient installer (My heartfelt apologies
for not mentioning earlier, it was completely out of my mind). The
reason I did this was to compile the examples, however it didn't work
out.

**For installation steps:
https://www.msys2.org/#installation

***For unix tools use "C:\msys64\usr\bin", "msys64" part can change
depending on your installation (This allows the execution of unix
commands as part of msys from cmd as well, beware!).

****This is also important. This way we can access the environment
variables we had set up before (e.g. "$OO_SDK_HOME"). You can see these
variables with `set` from msys.

On Tue, 2022-07-26 at 21:08 +0300, Fatih Yegin wrote:
> I'm sorry, I have forgotten to mention that cmake doesn't generate
> the
> needed headers in Windows either. We must run the necessary cppumaker
> command manually in the necessary directory.
> 
> Any ideas about how can solve these issues?
> 
> Thank you again, before hand.
> 
> On Tue, 2022-07-26 at 15:52 +0300, Fatih Yegin wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I am experimenting with LO SDK and using cmake to compile according
> > to
> > this page:
> > https://dev.blog.documentfoundation.org/2022/04/19/using-cmake-to-build-libreoffice-cpp-sdk-examples/
> > 
> > This works great on Linux.
> > 
> > However, I am having build errors on Windows.
> > 
> > I believe, root cause of this problem is unkown platform error from
> > sal
> > library. Yet, I can't solve this even though I explicitly specify
> > the
> > OS within compile commands.
> > 
> > I have added these errors briefly on the attachements in
> > Build_errors.txt with the addition of CMakeLists.txt file and
> > compile_commands.json file.
> > 
> > For the build environment, I use MSYS's MINGW64 environment
> > (additional
> > info can be found at: https://www.msys2.org/docs/environments/).
> > 
> > I can share my configuration steps with a secondary e-mail if
> > needed.
> > 
> > Thank you.
> > 
> > Best Regards,
> > Fatih Yeğin
> > 
>