Re: OpenOffice.org Platform Technology: Mac OS X -- Cocoa Port with Aqua NWF

Eric Hoch wrote:

>Hi Pinto, 
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> Well organisation is a bit of a weak point for Mac OS X porting. We
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>(the European Mac Porter that have time and that I know) meet us 
>during Linuxtag (6/22-25/2005) in Karlsruhe and have a little talk 
>about Mac OS X Port and its future. So some news are to come by the 
>end of June 
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Too bad that I cannot be in Germany (Deutchland).  This conference could 
prove to be interesting and the meeting of the European Mac OS X port 
team very interesting.  I'm willing to do builds and testing of the 
teams' and others efforts.

>First you should try to get familiar with the build process of OOo 
>for X11 since this is the most current versions for both 1.1.x as 
>current stable and 680/1.9.xxx as Milestonebuilds on the way to 2.0 
>later that year - propably July/August. 
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I've been doing that.  I have, yet, to complete a successful build.  
However, I've not given up.

>Buildinstructions can be found here 
><http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/build_680_X11.html> for current 
>680. I'm planing an update to them since some things changed with 
>the 10x+ milestones. 
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>Here <http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/build_11_X11.html> you find 
>1.1.x build instructions.
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>Please take a look at the archives of this mailinglists. There are 
>some current issues when building OOo under Tiger. It's recommanded 
>to use gcc 3.3 for Tiger builds since nobody of the developers I 
>know so far has been able to build OOo 1.1.x or 680 using gcc 4.0. 
>So to keep up with the ongoing development heading to 2.0 we stick 
>with gcc 3.3 under Tiger and Panther for OOo 680 and later 2.0. But 
>gcc 4.0 isn't forgotten. 
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Correct.  However, there is an open Task Issue to track efforts to use 
gcc 4.0 vice gcc 4.0 and to track patches needed to build 1.1.4 on Tiger.

>You should also do a search in Issuezilla to find current open Issues for Mac OS X builds. 
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You should also look at the closed issues, too.   This will give you an 
idea what was done in the past to work on the Mac OS X port.  I found 
patches for the 1.9.x (2.0) branch that I took back into the 1.1.4 
branch to see if they solve my build problem.

>Feel free to ask. A dumb question is the one not asked. 
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Correct.  There is no such thing as a "dumb" question. 

>Regards, 
>Eric Hoch
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Thank you for your assistance and understanding.

James McKenzie