[ooo-build] Building in Windows

[Tor Lillqvist]

> I downloaded GitExtensions, as my laptop supports only Windows OS. However,
> I am not sure as to how I am supposed to build the ooo-build in windows....
> is it supported?

Yes, but...

In general, building OpenOffice.org seems to be hard enough on Linux, so I certainly wouldn't advice for somebody new to it to try to do it on Windows first. Please install a Linux distribution that is well supported by the ooo-build infrastructure. That would primarily mean openSUSE 11.2 or Debian unstable I guess. Especially, note that people using Ubuntu have reported all kinds of problems.

Even if you insist on building OOo on Windows, you will need some Linux (or more correctly, Unix in general) experience, as the build uses a Unix emulation environment ("Cygwin") even if the actual toolchain used is Microsoft's Visual Studio 2008. (Note that it is not built using the VS IDE.)

--tml