Compiling SDK C++ examples under Windows without Visual Studio

[Stephan Bergmann]

On 02/10/2017 05:36 PM, Lars Callenbach wrote:
> I would like to compile the Calc spreadsheet C++ examples of the SDK
> (LibreOffice 5.2) under Windows using MinGW / Cygwin. Is there any
> documentation of how to do this?
>
> I prefer using GNU tools since I use them under Linux and I do not want
> to register Visual-Studio Community.
>
> Since the compilation of the C++ examples work fine under Linux I hope
> that it is possible to use a free compiler for Windows. Which one
> should I choose? Are there other alternatives (without
> costs/registration)?

Under Windows, we only support building with MSVC, not with GCC.  That 
includes building against the SDK.

(With the SDK, you'll need to use some Cygwin/MinGW tools like 'make', 
just not the gcc compiler.  See 
<http://api.libreoffice.org/docs/install.html> for documentation on 
setting up the SDK, in case you hadn't seen that yet.)