http://docs.libreoffice.org/libreofficekit.html says: "An example program (currently using the older shim.c/static library integration) can be seen on: https://github.com/ojwb/lloconv" The parenthetical remark is out of date - I updated the lloconv code to stop using shim.c in late April 2016.
Adolfo Jayme Barrientos committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=6f3bb068cc68bee3905b2f446d737f5ababd62ac tdf#106287 Remove outdated remark It will be available in 5.4.0. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.