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Hi there,

I'm attempting to build LO on 64bit Windows 7 using the Visual Studio
2010 Express using a combination of the instructions here:

http://www.documentfoundation.org/develop/

And the somewhat scattered instructions here (as there is no windows
section on libreoffice.org yet):

http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Building_Guide/Building_on_Windows#software_requirements

So far, I've run into the following issues:

1) The list of cygwin modules to install is not up to date. So far I
have installed the following:

    * autoconf
    * automake
    * bison
    * cabextract
    * flex
    * gcc-g++
    * git
    * gnupg
    * gperf
    * libxml2-devel
    * libpng12-devel
    * make
    * mintty
    * openssh
    * openssl
    * patch
    * perl
    * pkg-config
    * readline
    * rsync
    * unzip
    * wget
    * zip

Can this list be put onto the lo.org website? Is there some funky way
to instruct cygwin to install a list of packages in the same way that
something like sudo apt-get build-dep openoffice.org works?

2) The requirement to use 'cydrive paths' - it's worth maybe saying to
put the git checkout into a directory like c:\lo and then doing a cd
/cygdrive/c/lo before running autogen.sh to ensure that the correct
path is used?

3) If pkg-config is not installed, PKG_CHECK_MODULES is not defined
and autogen.sh fails with the message:

./configure: line 3598: syntax error near unexpected token `MINIMUM_REQS,'
./configure: line 3598: `PKG_CHECK_MODULES( MINIMUM_REQS,'

Rather than something more useful like 'Please install pkg-config' (I
logged https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30989 for this)

Okay! Most of the battle so far was figuring out what cygwin packages
to install and how to get the correct cygdrive paths - can someone add
a windows section to
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/LibreOffice/HowToBuild with
the info in this email?

Thanks,

Martin

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