J2SDK
After downloading the J2SDK 1.4.2 we recommend installing it into 'C:\j2sdk1.4.2' .
Jakarta-Ant
After you downloaded Jakarta-Ant, please unzip it to 'C:'.
GNU Make
Unzip the make.exe from the archive to e.g. 'C:\GNU_MAKE'.
Batik 1.5
Please make sure you downloaded Batik 1.5 and not 1.5.1 or any other version.
We recommend extracting the archive to 'C:'.
.NET Framework 1.1
What is in fact needed here is not the .NET technology itself, but only the two C Runtime Library dlls: msvcr70.dll, msvcp70.dll.
If you have a Microsoft compiler like Visual Studio 6 already installed, then you won't need to download this.
Currently we don't require any C/C++ compiler, although this might change in the future; however the
two dlls are needed for the OpenOffice.org SDK tools to be functioning on MS Windows platforms.
OpenOffice.org SDK 1.1
After downloading the OpenOffice SDK, we recommend that you extract the contents of the archive to 'C:'.
In the 'OpenOffice.org1.1_SDK' folder you will find the batch file 'configureWindowsNT'. Run this file and enter the required information.
You can find detailled instructions for setting up the SDK in OpenOffice.org1.1_SDK\docs\install.html .
The SDK serves as an invaluable resource portal for programming OpenOffice and thus Global Circle of Knowledge, we frequently use the Java UNO Runtime Reference and the IDL Reference as the most important resources for programming. The concepts behind OpenOffice.org's component model "UNO" are explained in the Developer's Guide.
Global Circle of Knowledge
After downloading the executable, make sure that you install all features that come along with it.
CVS - getting source code and setting up the build environment
The following instructions take for granted that you installed all of the tools above properly and that you are familiar with your cvs client.
Checkout the source code from our CVS repository setting the following properties beforehand:
