Creating extensions for LibreOffice Calc

[John Pye]

Hi Stephan

Thanks for the suggestions. I found the following pages after a bit of 
searching:
http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Calc/Add-In/CompleteAddIn
http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/SimpleCalcAddIn

These pages were in the Developer's Guide, but they're essentially 
useless as 'howto' information for a new hacker:
http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/DevGuide/Spreadsheets/Spreadsheet_Add-Ins
http://www.openoffice.org/api/docs/common/ref/com/sun/star/sheet/AddIn.html

The above AddIn examples haven't been updated for LibreOffice 4. But 
I'll see how I go.

If there is not plain C UNO environment, that means that we need to 
compile add-ins using the same C++ compiler as the UNO libraries were 
compiled with. What compiler is that, in the case of binary releases of 
LO for Windows? Is it MinGW-w64, or something else?

Cheers
JP

On 06/08/13 01:44, Stephan Bergmann wrote:
> On 08/05/2013 10:34 AM, John Pye wrote:
>> Is there any source of information specifically for developing Calc
>> extensions to LibreOffice? I found the following page, but nothing
>> relating to LibreOffice. Can we start something new on the wiki, 
>> perhaps?
>> http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Extensions_development
>
> Most of the information at api.openoffice.org and udk.openoffice.org 
> is still also relevant for LibreOffice, e.g., the chapter on Calc from 
> the Developer's Guide at 
> <http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/DevGuide/OpenOffice.org_Developers_Guide>.
>
>> Is there a pure C API for LibreOffice extensions, so that we can freely
>> use any C/C++ compiler and not have to use one that is ABI compatible
>> with the one used to compile LibreOffice? Or how does this work, noting
>> comments given here:
>> http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Extensions_best_practices#Programming_Language_.26_Environment 
>>
>
> There is no real plain C UNO environment, just C++, Java, Python, .Net.
>
> Stephan
>
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