Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: MySQL-Native Connector for 4.0

Hi :)
Hmm, one of my colleagues has just left for the day leaving an Xp machine that i could try to use 
for this.  Unfortunately both my bosses are still here and might be a bit 'funny' about me spending 
time on it.  Is it fairly quick&easy to set it up to compile?  Is Xp the right OS?  I could reboot 
it into Ubuntu 12.04 (might be 10.04 i can never remember which is on which machine at the moment). 
 Heinrich was looking for an Xp build or Win7?  Note that even if i do start this it's a first time 
for me so i'm not expecting success.  
Regards from
Tom :)  





> ________________________________
> From: Alexander Thurgood <alex.thurgood@gmail.com>
> To: users@global.libreoffice.org 
> Sent: Tuesday, 15 January 2013, 14:50
> Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: MySQL-Native Connector for 4.0
>
> Le 15/01/13 14:59, Tom Davies a écrit :
> > Hi :)
> > Is it worth learning how to compile from source in order to get one tailored to your system?  
>
> IMHO, yes, it is an interesting, if sometimes rather frustrating,
> experience for a non-developer/casual software builder.
>
>
> On the other hand i gather it ties-up a desktop machine for quite a
> while so if you don't have access to several machines then it might be a
> pain.
>
> Building does indeed take a while, on my 4gig RAM Linux box, about 10 -
> 12 hours, sometimes more if there are lots of changes in the git repo.
>
> > I keep being told that compiling is "really not difficult" but it still scares me.  
>
> Nothing to be scared about. It won't trash your machine (but might make
> the GUI unusable if you don't have much RAM). Patience is definitely a
> virtue when it comes to building LO. It is just that when the build
> fails, there's not always an obvious explanation for why, especially if
> it built fine previously for several days, or even months.
>
>
> Alex
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