(This post was originally written in Hungarian by Adam Kovacs for his blog. Thanks Adam!)
In our previous post in this series, we looked at building on Linux. But it’s also possible to download and compile the LibreOffice source code on Windows, so that’s what we’ll demonstrate here!
(Note: if you encounter problems following this guide, please also check this wiki page.)
Step 1: Download and install Visual Studio Community version (free)
Get it from the Visual Studio website. Add these components during installation:
- C++ compiler
- Windows SDK 10
- UCRT library
- Visual C++ ATL for x86 and x64
- .NET Framework SDK
Step 2: Download and install openJDK
Get these:
Step 3: Download and install Cygwin
Get it from here. Then, in a command prompt, access the Cygwin installer directory, for example:
cd c:\Users\username\Desktop\
And run the following command:
setup-x86_64.exe -P autoconf -P automake -P bison -P cabextract -P doxygen -P flex -P gcc-g++ ^
-P gettext-devel -P git -P gnupg -P gperf -P make -P mintty ^
-P nasm -P openssh -P openssl -P patch -P perl -P python -P python3 ^
-P pkg-config -P rsync -P unzip -P vim -P wget -P zip -P perl-Archive-Zip ^
-P perl-Font-TTF -P perl-IO-String
(This command installs different dependencies, including packages and programs, that are needed to compile LibreOffice.)
If you later want to install new programs or packages in Cygwin, you can also restart the installer. Then, when you can select the programs from the list, look for the appropriate name (eg nano, mc, wdiff) and in the drop-down list, change pending to full.
Step 4: Download JUnit and Ant
From now on, all commands are run in Cygwin.
mkdir -p /cygdrive/c/sources
cd /cygdrive/c/sources
wget https://archive.apache.org/dist/ant/binaries/apache-ant-1.9.5-bin.tar.bz2
tar -xjvf apache-ant-1.9.5-bin.tar.bz2
wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/junit/junit/4.10/junit-4.10.jar
(These commands will download JUnit and Ant to the c:\sources folder. The path of Ant will be, for example: c:\sources\apache-ant-1.9.5, which should be specified later in autogen.input.)
Step 5: Download Make
mkdir -p /opt/lo/bin
cd /opt/lo/bin
wget http://dev-www.libreoffice.org/bin/cygwin/make-4.2.1-msvc.exe
mv make-4.2.1-msvc.exe make
chmod a+x make
(This will allow you to start the actual compilation later.)
Step 6: Download the LibreOffice source code
Create a directory for LibreOffice somewhere (eg in your home directory), and then go into it:
mkdir ~/libreoffice
cd ~/libreoffice
This command downloads the source files to the current directory (the “.” character):
git clone git://gerrit.libreoffice.org/core .
If the current directory is not specified as a parameter, it will create a “core” directory and download the files.
Another example: this command creates a directory called “libreoffice” in the current …
