Re: OOo Windowsbuild with GNU compilers

Stephan Bergmann <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.openoffice.devel.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 02/08/11 12:10, Jan wrote:
> from the website I understand that the standard Windows build requires
> Microsoft compilers. Is there any plan to move this to using GNU
> compilers? I am having a really difficult time porting an extension from
> Linux to Windows because of MSVC "features".

There is a MinGW port of OOo in the works.  But note that, AFAIU, the 
two different Windows OOo versions (built with MSC vs. MinGW) would not 
be compatible at the level of C++ extension code, so that port would not 
necessarily help you with your specific problem.

-Stephan
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