LibreOffice Core Development build Issue

[Michael Stahl]

On 24.10.2017 20:37, Koushik Sekhar wrote:
> I have installed Visual Studio 2015 update 3 on my system. I figured out 
> that VC++ was not installed so installed the same and ran a small 
> program to verified the same. Now, when I ran the autogen.sh \ file 
> again, I am getting error again.

that's great, the error is not related to Visual Studio so that
hopefully works now!

> Below message shows the error:
> 
> configure: error: No JDK found, pass the --with-jdk-home option pointing 
> to a 32 bit JDK
> Error running configure at /cygdrive/c/sources/libo-core/autogen.sh line 
> 293.
> 
> I am using a 64-bit windows system and so I installed a 64-bit JDK. Is 
> it necessary that I install a 32-bit JDK now?  Also, could I use any 
> version for the JDK or is there any specific JDK version I should use?

by default, a 32-bit LO will be built, which requires a 32-bit JDK.  but
you can also build a 64-bit LO by using the flag --enable-64-bit, in
which case your installed JDK should work fine.

HTH,
 michael

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