INSTALL_LIBSTAROFFICE

INSTALLATION

General
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Since libstaroffice was based on librevenge code (for convenience), you need to install
librevenge in order to build libstaroffice. You can get librevenge from:

- librevenge <http://libwpd.sourceforge.net/download.html>


Unix/Linux
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Installation on Unix/Linux should be simple. Simply execute the following 
sequence of commands:

./configure ; make ; su -c 'make install'

Extensive installation instructions can be found in the INSTALL file.


Windows - Microsoft(tm) Visual Studio/C++
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A workspace for MSVC6 can be found in the ./build/win32/ directory.
This workspace contains a projects file to compile a release version or 
a debug version of libstaroffice. 

NOTE: Using the MSVC build system will result in a static library only. 
No dll can be created yet using this build system. If you want to create 
a dll, please use the MingW build system (see below for details).


Windows - MinGW
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First of all, in order to use librevenge in your application, you do not need
to build it yourself. If you have access to a binary distribution, you
are encouraged to use it. If for whatever reason you still want to build
librevenge using MinGW, read following instructions.


* Build environment and dependencies

In order to build librevenge, you have to have installed MinGW distribution from
http://www.mingw.org. Because the build system of libstaroffice uses autotools, you
must install also the MSys packages. It is advisable to install all recent
packages into a path that does not contain spaces. Besides the MinGW
distribution, you have to install the _runtime_ and _development_ packages of
libstaroffice dependency librevenge from libwpd.sourceforge.net/download.html. The packages
you need are librevenge-{version}-MinGW.zip and librevenge-devel-{version}-MinGW.zip


* Build procedure

1. Unpack the source code by running:

  gunzip -dc libstaroffice-{version}.tar.gz | tar xpf

You can also use WinZip or any other GUI compression tool.

2. Next, run:

  export ACLOCAL_FLAGS='-I <pkg-config installation prefix>/share/aclocal'; \
  ./autogen.sh

Some versions of libtool have bug that prevents MinGW from creating shared
libraries. The autogen.sh script "libtoolizes" the package using the libtool
included with MinGW distribution. Like that you are sure that your libtool is
able to create DLLs.
The ACLOCAL_FLAGS variable is there in order to allow the auto* scripts to find
the pkg.m4 macro that is part of the pkg-config distribution. If this macro is
not found, the generated configure script will be ending with an error.

3. Time to configure libstaroffice; run:

  ./configure [--prefix=<target>] [--enable-static] [--disable-shared]

By default, the configure script uses as prefix "/usr/local" and configures to
create only shared libraries. Myself, I build using following options:
"./configure --prefix=/target --enable-static --enable-shared"

4. Nearly done. Make sure you have a clean build by running:
 
  make clean all

5. And last but not least, compile and install librevenge by running:

  make install [-i]

If you configure using "--enable-static --disable-shared" (pure static
library creation), the libtool import libraries are not created. Make
will try to install them and will stop with error. The "-i" option
makes it to report the error, but not to stop. Like that the
installation will succeed.

That's all folks! While no mailing exists, for more information, ask
questions directly to osnola@users.sourceforge.net. Remember that
Uncle Google can also be of big help especially when the problem is
not with libstaroffice, but with one of its dependencies.