Re: OpenOffice support for AIX

Caolán McNamara <[email protected]> Tue, 29 Jun 2010 16:26:00 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.openoffice.devel.porting
Message-ID <1277825160.2007.21.camel@Vain>
On Tue, 2010-06-29 at 08:10 -0700, JeffStromberg wrote:
> We  are working on a port of OpenOffice to AIX at the moment. I was wondering
> if anyone knew of other people that are also working on this. It's been
> quite a bit of effort so far but we are making progress. We would be happy
> to work with some others to speed the work up if possible. 

http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Lazy_Hackers_Guide_To_Porting
Might help you out. 

The hard part is the uno bridge itself. I haven't a clue about the AIX
ABI to know if, assuming you use gcc, if you'd be able to directly use
the gcc3_linux_powerpc64 bridge or if a custom one is needed. 

C.