1 Apache OpenOffice (AOO) 2 ======================= 3 4 The Apache OpenOffice project provides a full featured office productivity suite 5 based on open standards. It is the continuation of the OpenOffice.org project. 6 7 For detailed information about Apache OpenOffice please visit 8 http://incubator.apache.org/openofficeorg/ 9 10 Apache OpenOffice is a very large project with many components and mainly 11 implemented in C++ but also in Java, Perl, Python and other languages. 12 13 Currently supported platforms include: 14 15 Linux variants 16 Windows 17 Mac OS X 18 OS/2 19 20 OpenOffice is used by millions of users worldwide and with more than 100 million 21 downloads it is one of the most successful open source projects. 22 23 Getting the latest sources via Subversion 24 ========================================= 25 26 You can always checkout the latest source via subversion using the following 27 command: 28 29 svn co https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/ooo/trunk aoo 30 31 For further information visit http://incubator.apache.org/openofficeorg/source.html 32 33 Building Apache OpenOffice 34 =========================== 35 36 Apache OpenOffice is a big project and depends on several other external libraries. 37 The list of prerequisites varies for the different platforms. 38 39 A comprehensive and complete building guide can be found in the project wiki under 40 41 http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Building_Guide_AOO 42 43 With having all prerequisites in place you can simply run 44 45 cd aoo/main 46 autoconf 47 ./configure <configure_switches> 48 ./bootstrap 49 source *.set.sh 50 cd instsetoo_native 51 build --all 52 53 Note that building OpenOffice can take several hours. 54 55 The default build will produce a setup version (e.g. setup program on windows, dmg on Mac OS, 56 rpm and deb packages on Linux, pkg packages on Solaris) and an archived version. The output 57 can be found in the <output> directory in instsetoo_native/<output_dir>/OpenOffice/... 58