Re: contribute

On 16.12.2010 18:20, Alexandro Colorado wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 10:43 AM, Mathias Bauer<[email protected]>  wrote:

>> Hi Gerry,
>>
>> On 17.12.2010 01:18, Gerry's Hotmail wrote:
>>>
>>> My name is Gerry Escobar and I am interested in donating some time in
>>> building OpenIffice.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I consider myself probably not a novice but not an expert programmer
>>> either.
>>> I have an old Borland C++ 3.1 compiler which I bought when I decided to
>>> learn C++ programming.  It's been decades since I set aside my programming
>>> skills.  After reading your website while trying to get a copy of OO today
>>> and also now that I'm beginning to get more time in my hands to do some
>>> other things, I thought perhaps I can get back into continuing my learning
>>> of C++.  If you think you might be able to use me with my old C++
>>> compiler,
>>> I am willing to donate some time in building OO.  If not in the
>>> programming
>>> area, perhaps in the testing side of things.
>>
>> If you want to work on Windows, you will need to switch to the Microsoft C++
>> compiler. There is a cost-free version of it available ("Visual Studio
>> Express").
>
> I think there was some ways to do it from gcc, but the way to build
> has changed starting 3.2. So that work most be reimplemented.
Really, though I admire Tono for his heroic effort to build OOo with gcc 
on Windows, it's not what I would recommend for beginners. It requires a 
patched version of mingw that usually only works for a limited number of 
OOo versions and it is even slower than the VC++ based build (that 
already is much slower than gcc on Linux on the same hardware).

So my recommendation is: if the VC++ compiler should be avoided, avoid 
Windows too.

Regards,
Mathias

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