Re: LibreOffice Windows installer release build failure

On 05/05/2016 22:14, Markus Mohrhard wrote:
> Hey,
>
> On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 4:55 PM, Stuart Swales
> <stuart.swales.croftnuisk@gmail.com
> <mailto:stuart.swales.croftnuisk@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     I need to build the Windows installer in order to test some changes to
>     the installer code. Having had problems building before (last Dec) with
>     VS2013 I just checked out master and tried to build before making
>     any of these amendments.
>
>     Build on Windows 7 (32-bit) VM with
>     Visual Studio 2015 Community (Update 2)
>     Windows 10 SDK 10586.15
>     Setup with LODE
>
>     make works OK
>     make test-install works OK
>     make install FAILS
>
>     ...
>
>     The _MergeErrors.idt extracted from the updated MSI is helpfully opaque:
>
>     Table    NumRowMergeConflicts
>     s255    i2
>     _MergeErrors    Table
>     _Validation    2
>
>
>     There is no _MergeErrors table in the original MSI (copied as
>     libreoffice52_en-US.ms.1)
>
>     Any ideas?
>
>
>
> We normally don't use make install. Use --with-package-format=msi in
> your autogen.sh settings and it will produce the msi file during a
> normal build.
>
> Regards,
> Markus

Thanks Markus - works a treat.

Regards,
Stuart

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Stuart Swales