Re: Re: instsetoo_native: Assembly missing for Windows install

On 05.12.2010 20:58, Kristján Bjarni Guðmundsson wrote:

> So does this mean that Windows XP support has been dropped from the build
> environment? How am I then supposed to build installations for Windows XP?
> Is it possible to get the source to your build environment, so that I can
> build Windows XP installations? Or at least get some information on what
> changes I have to make to build with vcredist_x86.exe?
>

No, Windows support hasn't been dropped - at least not intentionally. It 
seems that whoever changed the build environment so that the redists are 
no longer required, meant it well: it made it easier for developers to 
build OOo as they don't need to download the redists and put them into 
the source tree manually again and again. Instead of that, they install 
them once and for good. But unfortunately he forgot to add a configure 
switch that allows to include the redistributables.

So I consider this a bug. I will see that we can fix it as soon as possible.

In the meantime you could try a hack:

put your redistributable into "solver/bin"
set the environment variable "WITH_VC_REDIST" to "TRUE"

and see if it works.

Regards,
Mathias


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