LibreOffice-SDK for MinGW

[Joachim Langenbach]

Dear Helmar and Kendy,

I'm also trying to build the LibreOffice SDK with MinGW. Goal is to connect an 
application compiled with MinGW to LibreOffice on Windows, Linux and may be 
other platforms. Since my attampts to cross compile LibreOffice are not very 
successfully, I have two questions, before investing more time in that.

> So far the MinGW build is still a very experimental thing; I mostly use
> that when I develop something Windows-only because I can still keep my
> workflow, but as the binaries built with the MinGW SDK will be
> incompatible with the LibreOffice release builds, I am not sure it makes
> much sense to invest effort in that at this stage.

Does it mean, that an application linked against the MinGW SDK, could not 
connect to a MSVC standard libreoffice installation?

And second, what are the alternatives of using the SDK to connect to LibreOffce 
(if an compiler switch to MSVC is not wanted)? Ole connection may be used, but 
ole is not platform independent (or is it available under linux or MacOS?). 
Are there any other possiblities or have the SDK or OLE connection some other 
advantages and disadvantages?

Kind regards,

Joachim Langenbach