[Libreoffice] easyhacks - simplify download of Windows dependencies

Peter Burtt phb at nbnet.nb.ca
Tue Nov 2 17:19:23 PDT 2010


The cygwin SETUP.EXE accepts a comma-delimited list of packages to 
install. To install cygwin and the packages listed as prerequisites on 
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Building_Guide/Building_on_Windows#setting_up_cygwin 
use this syntax:

setup.exe -P 
unzip,zip,autoconf,bison,flex,gcc-gcc++,gperf,make,openssl-devel,mercurial,readline,openssl,openssh,perl,mintty,patch,gnupg,wget

This still launches the GUI and you still need to manually choose 
installation paths etc, but the packages passed via command line are 
pre-selected and you don't have to crawl down the big list.

Hope this info is useful, etc.


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