<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Hi Folks, i wanna share my experience with the wiki [1] and [2] to help improve it. It was a very frustrating task get the complier running and i wish no one else would step in so many pitfalls as i did. [1] suggests to not read any further but goto [2]. However going through [2] reveald i would have better read [1] first: 1. email: "Please do not make functional changes to this page, but send an email instead." Thats what i am doing now. Forgive me if this is not be the right mailinglist to send the email to. But it does not tell an email address :-( Also it is unclear a wiki should not be modified. 2. cygwin: "Now download and run the <code>install_cygwin.ps1</code> script as mentioned below.<code>". It would help if the document could be read from top to bottom instead of jumping around. </code> 3. When saving the script with firefox its name is "bin_install_cygwin.ps1" (the prefix "bin_" is unwanted). Its not helpfull to know where to not store it. Instead the wiki should clearly tell where to store it (<code>C:\cyginstall\</code><code>install_cygwin.ps1) </code>4. Supported Platforms: What about windows? This document is about installing in windows but it doesnt say which windows Version but lists MacOs Versions. 5. cloning lode: "Clone the lode git repo" and running will lead to "$'\r': command not found" (explained in [1] only) 6. "./setup --prereq" will fail with "Error:Unsupported base_os:MINGW64_NT-10.0" if using VS2017 when "8.1 SDK" is not yet installed (explained in [1] only) 7. Using "Visual Studio 2017 ": configure wont find al.exe even though it is installed (in another sub directory then expected by /dev/core/configure script). 8. Using "Visual Studio 2015 " (as suggested by [1]) Its not explained one will need to manually select feature "Programming language Visual C++". The error is "cl.exe not foun". 9. <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.nasm.us">www.nasm.us</a> (referenced in "lode\bin\utils_Cygwin.sh" ) was down. Would help to have a mirror of all referenced files on a single server 10. After installing cygwin with <code>install_cygwin.ps1 </code>the packages flex, ant and zip are missing. They are listed in the script and the script finished without error however i had to manually add them using "C:\cyginstall\packages\setup-x86_64.exe" Unclear which version i should choose (maybe cygwin did not know either?). Finaly make is running now. I suggest to write a simpified "getting started" wiki for installing under windows without any unclear preconditions nor sidesteps. Just get it installed somehow with a single batch file. Or even supply a preconfigured VM image or Docker Container would be nice. [1] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/BuildingOnWindows">https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/BuildingOnWindows</a> [2] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/lode">https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/lode</a> Jörg Kubitz </div> </body> </html>