To Build OpenOffice.org

OpenOffice.org is a good office software package and is a good alternative to Microsoft Office.

1. Download setup.exe from Cygwin and run it. Select the following packages for installation.

   • bison
   • cabextract
   • flex
   • gcc4-g++
   • gperf
   • libtool
   • make
   • patch
   • pkg-config
   • unzip
   • wget
   • zip

   Replace symlinked awk with a copy of gawk.

   rm awk
   cp gawk.exe awk.exe

2. Install Windows SDK for Windows Server 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5. Alternatively, install MinGW-w64, as shown in this post.

3. Install DirectX SDK.

4. Install the latest Java Development Kit.

5. Install Apache Ant.

6. Download and unpack OpenOffice.org source code.

7. Download GDI+ Redistributable. Extract the files into a temporaray folder and copy gdiplus.dll to main/external/gdiplus folder of the OpenOffice.org source tree.

   cp /gdiplus/asms/10/msft/windows/gdiplus/gdiplus.dll aoo-3.4.1/main/external/gdiplus/

8. Download Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 and put the file vcredist_x86.exe in main/external/vcredist folder.

9. Build Seamonkey, as shown in this post.

10. Install NSIS.

11. Start Cygwin terminal. Set PATH.

    export PATH="/usr/bin:/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0/VC/bin:/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0/Common7/IDE:/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Microsoft SDKs/Windows/v6.1/Bin:/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Microsoft SDKs/Windows/6.1/Lib:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/Microsoft.NET/Framework/v2.0.50727:/cygdrive/c/Windows/system32"

    Make sure you're in the main folder of OpenOffice source. Run autoconf to create the configure script.

    cd /c/aoo-3.4.1/main
    autoconf

    Then, run configure.

    ./configure --disable-build-mozilla --with-mozilla-build="/cygdrive/c/mozilla-build" --with-cl-home="/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0/VC" --with-mspdb-path="/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0/Common7/IDE" --with-frame-home="/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Microsoft SDKs/Windows/v6.1/Lib" --with-psdk-home="/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Microsoft SDKs/Windows/v6.1" --with-midl-path="/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Microsoft SDKs/Windows/v6.1/Bin" --with-asm-home="/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0/VC/bin" --with-csc-path="/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/Microsoft.NET/Framework/v2.0.50727" --with-jdk-home="/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Java/jdk1.7.0_10" --with-directx-home="/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Microsoft DirectX SDK (June 2010)" --with-ant-home=/cygdrive/c/apache-ant-1.8.4 --with-dmake-url="http://dmake.apache-extras.org.codespot.com/files/dmake-4.12.tar.bz2" --with-epm-url="http://ftp.easysw.com/pub/epm/3.7/epm-3.7-source.tar.gz" --with-lang=ALL --with-dict=ALL --without-junit --enable-pch --enable-bundled-dictionaries --disable-atl --disable-activex --disable-odk --disable-binfilter --disable-dbgutil

12. Finish configuration and download missing external source tarballs and extensions.

    ./bootstrap

13. Include the configured environment and build.

    source winenv.set.sh
    cd instsetoo_native/
    build --all

Building mplayer on Debian Linux

MPlayer is one of my favorite media players. It is used with such frontend as smplayer, gnome-mplayer or MPlayerGUI to provide a good alternative to Windows Media Player and VLC. First, I installed the necessary compiler toolchain.

• autoconf
• automake
• binutils
• bison
• cpp
• g77 or fort77
• gcc
• gettext
• g++
• libtool
• make

Next, I installed the necessary development libraries:

• libasound2-dev
• libbz2-dev
• libesd0-dev
• libfontconfig1-dev
• libfribidi-dev
• libjpeg62-dev
• libncurses5-dev
• libpng12-dev
• libxv-dev

Some useful libraries are not included in the Debian distribution, so I had to compile them on my own. They are faac, lame, libdca, live, x264 and xvidcore. First, I built liblzo.

tar xzvf /usr/src/lzo-2.04.tar.gz
cd lzo-2.04/
./configure --prefix /usr
make
make install

Then, I built the giflib.

tar xjvf /usr/src/giflib-4.1.6.tar.bz2
cd giflib-4.1.6/
ls
./configure --build=i586-pc-linux-gnu --prefix=/usr --disable-shared
make
make install

I built cdparanoia.

tar xzvf /usr/src/cdparanoia-III-10.2.src.tgz
cd cdparanoia-III-10.2/
./configure --build=i586-pc-linux-gnu --prefix=/usr --disable-shared
make
make install

I compiled libdca in the following way:

tar xjvf libdca-0.0.5.tar.bz2
cd libdca-0.0.5/
./configure --build=i586-pc-linux-gnu --prefix=/usr --disable-shared
make
make install

I built ogg, vorbis, theora and speex.

./configure --build=i586-pc-linux-gnu --prefix=/usr --disable-shared
make
make install

To compile lame, run:

tar xzvf /usr/src/lame-3.98.4.tar.gz
cd lame-3.98.4/
./configure --build=i586-pc-linux-gnu --prefix=/usr --disable-shared --mandir=/usr/share/man --enable-expopt=full --enable-nasm
make
make install

Unpack live555 source in /usr/lib and compile live555 as follows:

cd /usr/lib/live
./genMakefiles linux
make

To compile x264, do:

tar xjvf /usr/src/x264-snapshot-20110102-2245.tar.bz2
cd x264-snapshot-20110102-2245/
sh configure --host=i586-pc-linux-gnu --prefix=/usr --enable-pic --disable-asm
make
make install

Compile the xvid library as follows:

cd xvidcore/build/generic
./configure --build=i586-pc-linux-gnu --prefix=/usr
make
make install

Finally, you're ready to compile MPlayer. Get the latest snapshot tarball and extract it:

wget ftp://ftp.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/mplayer-export-snapshot.tar.bz2
tar xjvf mplayer-export-snapshot.tar.bz2
cd mplayer-export-2009-05-29
CPPFLAGS='-DLIBTWOLAME_STATIC' ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-runtime-cpudetection --yasm=/usr/bin/yasm --language=all --confdir=/etc/mplayer
make
make install
chmod 4755 /usr/bin/mplayer