with the following commits on master, and a workaround for bug fdo#50584 (which is really a JRE 7 bug), i can get a passing "make check" on a MSVC2008 build; would be nice to have these on the release branch as well: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=5d95ab29f228c355029147ee083e9f222545c0ae http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=111e10bd401b3fee981f32f5f98fc7512a5c47f8 http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=d8b6225d974ef7f8dd14cf0828a86f6e9881fc97 http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=184179f583d26c26639781e65eb75afc13e0a149 http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=09b853e38b7a35d614caebd97116ca8a106148bd http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=01550a7450f099c4016af53fef53c286040b1575 http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=0ec45dc41dd4872482b817387f253d6fab6bf20c http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=81af84c04fa7ef8c8c12d2a9d3899a9a75cb8260 http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=75b7d3dce610eb1d7a071d02800d5e3d0bec0898 i've updated the Windows build page on the wiki to add a few things like JUnit as well. for those who want to try this out at home, be warned that apparently --headless doesn't work in the Windows VCL plug, so you get to see quite a lot of windows on "make subsequentcheck"...