Bug 39640

Summary:	[EasyHack] Simplify the download of Windows dependencies
Product:	LibreOffice	Reporter:	Björn Michaelsen <bjoern.michaelsen>
Component:	LibreOffice	Assignee:	Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	robinson.libreoffice
Priority:	medium	Keywords:	difficultyBeginner, easyHack, skillScript
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
Crash report or crash signature:		Regression By:

Description Björn Michaelsen 2011-07-28 10:04:40 UTC

=== Simplify the download of Windows dependencies ===

'''Background:''' Setting up the build environment on windows is very tricky - you have to know sources of many packages, download them one by one, and install them.

*setup Cygwin with all the dependencies in one go, like advised in http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice/2010-November/001932.html

*use http://kegel.com/wine/winetricks for download, it seems to work under cygwin

*let the developer accept the EULAS

*copy the needed files to src/ subdirectory

*See https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32426 for some partial efforts

'''Skills:''' bash, basic Windows knowledge

Comment 1 Jan Holesovsky 2012-04-04 09:19:22 UTC

This is mostly solved; together with

http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Windows_Build_Dependencies

setting the Windows build is pretty straight-forward these days.

Comment 2 Robinson Tryon (qubit) 2015-12-16 00:16:52 UTC

Migrating Whiteboard tags to Keywords: (EasyHack DifficultyBeginner SkillScript SkillWindows)
[NinjaEdit]

Comment 3 Björn Michaelsen 2016-01-26 17:24:47 UTC

removing skillWindows keyword. There is no such thing at https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Easy_Hacks/lists/by_Required_Skill and having a "skill*" keyword makes the easyHack not even appear on that page even in "uncategorized".