[Libreoffice] Registry keys for Windows compilation

[Jonathan Aquilina]

On 19/11/2011 19:02, julien2412 wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to compile on Windows Vista (usually I compile without pb on a
> Debian testing) and had error messages :
> checking the Perl version... checked (perl 5)
> checking for required Perl modules... all modules found
> checking for a friendly Microsoft C/C++ compiler installation path... Can't
> find MS Visual Studio / VC++ at ./oowintool line 188.
> cygpath: can't convert empty path
> cygpath: can't convert empty path

I think the question here is if your running 64bit or 32bit. Is the path 
in oowintool set to look for a 32bit visual studio or does it check to 
see if the system is 32bit use 32bit otherwise use the 64bit path.

> checking for mspdb80.dll... no
> checking for mspdb100.dll... no
> checking the Microsoft C/C++ Compiler... checking for cl.exe... no
> cygpath: can't convert empty path
> cygpath: can't convert empty path
> configure: error: Microsoft C/C++ Compiler not found. Use --with-cl-home or
> set path to cl.exe.
> Error running configure at ./autogen.sh line 157.
>
> I took a look at oowintool, the pb is cygwin doesn't map all the
> /proc/registry.
> For example, there's nothing there :
> /proc/registry/HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/VCExpress
> And there's nothing cause permissions aren't ok :
> ls -l /proc/registry/HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/
> d---------  1      400    401 0 Nov 19 18:53 VBExpress
> d---------  1      400    401 0 Nov 19 18:53 VCExpress
> d---------  1      400    401 0 Nov 19 18:53 VCSExpress
> But I can't succeed in adding +rx on these directories. When I look at
> authorizations on Windows registry, it's the same as Mediaplayer which
> appears like this on Cygwin :
> dr-x------  3 SYSTEM   SYSTEM 0 Sep  2  2009 MediaPlayer
>
> I've googled a little but found nothing which explains why the mapping isn't
> complete but found there was a tool regtool on Cygwin which can read (and
> write) directly the Windows registry. (it uses "\" for directory separator)
> So I thought it could be useful to change the reg functions of oowin :
> like reg_get_value($)
>
> Pb is regtool doesn't allow the search of the key and I'm not sure mixing
> regtool to get a key and Cygwin reg function
> would be a good option.
>
> The last thing : for those who can compile on Windows, how do you manage to
> make all these things work ?
> (I suppose/I hope you don't pass manually all the paths by autogen options)
>
> Any opinion welcome here :-)
>
> Julien.
>
> PS : I tried mingw but using openSuse packages on my Debian is definitely an
> option I don't want to.
>
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