[Gllug] OpenOffice, from source using GCJ or ECJ

[Chris Stromblad]

The code does look intimidating at first, but once one has navigated 
around the directories for a while, it's not too bad. What I 
entertaining however is how a, seemingly simple, program can turn into 
this monster of a code base.

Who would have thought that the most complicated software would be a 
WYSIWG document editor ;)

When you do get around to start compiling it, do drop a mail on the list ;)

// Chris

Nix wrote:
> On 11 Nov 2006, Chris Stromblad stated:
>> My question is simply to ask if anyone on the list has successfully
>> built OO from source against an Open Source java implementation, like
>> GNU java or eclipse?
> 
> Getting this working (again: it was once but keeps breaking) is next on
> my todo list (probably for this weekend).
> 
> I'll probably try it twice, once with 4.1.1, and once with tip-of-tree
> once the integration of ECJ as GCC's new Java frontend stabilizes. (I
> jest not.)
> 
>> Any help, direction, tips, advice is greatly appreciated.
> 
> Despair and prayer are common reactions when seeing the OOo codebase for
> the first time. Do not abandon hope, it is comprehensible.
> 
> Eventually.
> 
> 
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