LibreOffice Windows installer release build failure

[Markus Mohrhard]

Hey,

On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 4:55 PM, Stuart Swales <
stuart.swales.croftnuisk at gmail.com> wrote:

> I need to build the Windows installer in order to test some changes to
> the installer code. Having had problems building before (last Dec) with
> VS2013 I just checked out master and tried to build before making any of
> these amendments.
>
> Build on Windows 7 (32-bit) VM with
> Visual Studio 2015 Community (Update 2)
> Windows 10 SDK 10586.15
> Setup with LODE
>
> make works OK
> make test-install works OK
> make install FAILS
>
> ...
>


> The _MergeErrors.idt extracted from the updated MSI is helpfully opaque:
>
> Table    NumRowMergeConflicts
> s255    i2
> _MergeErrors    Table
> _Validation    2
>
>
> There is no _MergeErrors table in the original MSI (copied as
> libreoffice52_en-US.ms.1)
>
> Any ideas?
>
>

We normally don't use make install. Use --with-package-format=msi in your
autogen.sh settings and it will produce the msi file during a normal build.

Regards,
Markus
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