[BUILD] Which license do I need to build a professional edition of LibreOffice (4.0.x/4.1.x) of windows ?

James Michael DuPont jmdpplks at gmail.com
Wed Oct 9 22:48:39 CEST 2013


<<Visual Studio 2010 is used to build the official releases.<<
is there any blocker that would prevent mingw or cygwin to be used?  that
might be a nice project some day.
mike


On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 3:33 PM, Christian Lohmaier <
lohmaier+libreoffice at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Matthieu, *,
>
> On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 4:34 PM, Gay, Matthieu
> <matthieu.gay at capgemini.com> wrote:
> > Hello, I still have problem to build under windows, but I wanted to know,
> > what do I need to build LibreOffice (4.0.x/4.1.x) entirely as the
> original
> > available in the website.
>
> You cannot produce libreOffice as from the website, as it is using a
> TDF-only certificate to sign (obviously), and also used TDF branding
> (which you may not use - but you probably want your own branding
> anyway)
>
> But one is just optical thing, the other a technical detail.
>
> > First can you confirm that I need a certificate to sign the DLL
>
> You don't /need/ it, but without having it signed, you'll get
> corresponding warning dialogs (unknown publisher) when trying to
> install. So using a certificate is strongly recommended.
>
> > and a
> > license of Visual Studio 12 (without I can't build ATL and ActiveX
> modules).
>
> Visual Studio 2010 is used to build the official releases. But yes,
> you need a payed version.
> Visual Studio 2012 also works, but when you want your builds to run on
> Windows XP, you must install at least update 1 for VS 2012, and you
> need to tell autogen.sh/configure to use the 7.1A SDK.
>
> > Which version of Windows is the best? Do I need a pro version or a
> familial
> > one?
>
> Windows Version should not matter - official builds are done on
> Windows Server 2008 R2 - but any version of Windows sould work.
>
> Only paid stuff you need is Windows itself and the Visual Studio
> license. Rest of the build requirements is free software.
>
> configure switches for official build: (see
> https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/ReleaseBuilds )
>
> --with-distro=LibreOfficeWin32 --enable-release-build
> --enable-windows-build-signing --with-lang=ALL
> --disable-dependency-tracking --enable-pch
> --with-nss-build-tools=/path/to/mozilla-build
> --with-branding=/path/to/tdf-branding
> --with-junit=/path/to/junit-4.10.jar
> --with-ant-home=/path/to/apache-ant-1.9.2
> --with-external-tar=/path/to/lo-externalsrc
>
> nss-build-tools are no longer needed for current codeline, but you
> also asked for 4.0.x …
>
> ciao
> Christian
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