How to build LibreOffice on your desktop

1 openSUSE.Asia Summit October 21-22, 2017

How to build LibreOfficeon your desktop

Masataka KONDOLibreOffice Japanese TeamOctober 22nd , 2017


Self Introduction : Who am I


Activities in the Team

Used to be QA Coordinator of OpenOffice.org Japanese Team (2003-2004)Join LibreOffice Activities from Sep. 2012Staff : Mar. 2014 -


I Come from...

I live in Kakamigahara City ( 各務原市 ), Gifu Pref. City’s name called “Hard to Read It”.

There is Military Airdrome used by JASDF.(JASDF Gifu Air Base)Also, there are many aircraft manufacturing companiese.g. Kawasaki Heavy Industries


The Map


Example : Colorful Prototype ships “Viper Zero”


My Hobby

About 20 years of experience in Photography.12 years passed since I had started to use Digital SLR


Introduction : Why we try to build it

As I wrote in the Abstract, Building LibreOffice yourself is a first step of Development activity.


Build makes the software more active

For the Community :Many persons join their activities e.g. development.Increase the number of users

For you :Skill up to use software, with complehending it.Get skill to finding and fixing bugs.

And experience with new features, new software...


Another Reason : Just suitable for you

Recent version (e.g. 5.4.x) uses GTK3Old version, such as 5.0.x TDF build was not used GTK3

Self Build

TDF Distributed


Next step : LibreOffice Online (LOOL), and so on

To build LOOL, building LibreOffice core is needed. As improving LOOL, It might become much popular. Advanced : LibreOffice for Mobile Devices

Android version’s source code is integrated.On mac OS, for iOS will be able to build in the future.


On other environments

Shortly I’m going to introduce how to build LibreOffice on Windows or mac OS.


On Windows system

There are some examples introduced in JapaneseSometime talked on local “Study Parties” of LibreOffice

You need Microsoft’s Account to get VS2013 Community.To get older versions becomes difficult than before.

And Cygwin is also need to build it. To setup environment is much harder than others.

The hardest system, maybe.Finishing setup the environment must be almost finished.


On macOS

See TDF Development Wiki.First, you must install Xcode from App Store.Using “LODE” environment is the easiest way.

Unfortunately, Current version is not finished cause of building “firebird” sub block.


Linux is the most popular, the easiest...

You have already used it, haven’t you?Popular distributions are recommended.openSUSE is one of recommended distribution, of course!!


Case 1 : on openSUSE

Tutorial written in TDF wiki will lead you to success easily on openSUSE. Complementally how to use “Zypper” for openSUSE beginners or other distributions users.


Read the wiki first

Open wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/BuildingOnLinux


Read the wiki...

Run “Zypper” shown as below :

And cloning source tree, autogen.sh will complete suitable settings.

Do not forget to install “git”.

% zypper si -d LibreOffice

% git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core core

% zypper in git


Is it all, really?

Yes! It is just all procedure(1) % zypper si -d libreoffice(2) % ./autogen.sh(3) % make build

You need only enough time to compile all of the sourceI recommend you to sleep while make buildNext morning, you will get new one, probably.


If OS installation is not “Completed”.

“Incomplete install” may lead you to troublesI had encountered the trouble without Gnome/KDE.I want to use “Cinnamon” first...

Zypper will help you to install libraries needed.For users not use openSUSE usually ;

Its option “search” (shorten “se”) shows package nameAnd it shows also already installed or not yet.


Example : “zypper search”

./autogen.sh is stoped not installed cups library.

% ./autogen.sh....(snip)----configure: error: Could not find CUPS. Install libcups2-dev or cups-develError running configure at ./autogen.sh lin 293.

% zypper se cups-develS | Name | Summary | Type--+--------------------+----------------------------------+-------- | cups-devel | Development Environment for CUPS | package | libgnomecups-devel | GNOME CUPS library | package


In case of Ubuntu etc.

This procedure is important on next case.


In case of Ubuntu etc.

This procedure is important on next case.


I think it may be strange…! ?

On openSUSE, we can use zypper both as installation command, package search command, etc.We use on Debian or Ubuntu, “apt-get” as an installation tool.What is package search command on their systems?

Use “apt-cache” as package search command.Installation and Search commands have each different command name. It may be difficult for beginners, I think.


Case 2 : on Linux Mint

The Case of “Does not run dependency Script”. Install some libraries manually, and you can get more experience and interest about the software.


Cinnamon / Mate may cause troubles to setup

Build dependency correction procedure does not workSimilar trouble on openSUSE caused when I ignored to install Gnome/KDE environment.

Linux Mint :Based on Ubuntu (there’s also Debian based one) Cinnamon, or Mate is standard desktop environment

You can also choose KDE, Xfce version

How to solve :Install libraries manually, in each time when autogen.sh stopped.


What is the advantage to know that case

You can know what library needed by configure script.You can advise preciously when other beginners encounter their similar trouble.

“Rubber-Stump” experiences don’t make you better

I’m going to show the procedure step by step.


(Cinnamon version only) : There is not “aclocal”

“aclocal” has dependency between with autotoolYou must “autotools-dev” first, and you can install “automake” include “aclocal”.Mate version has “aclocal”, you will encounter this trouble on Cinnamon version only.

$ sudo apt-get install autotools-dev$ sudo apt-get install automake


Run autogen.sh again and again...

Script’s stops show you what library insufficient.- libcups2-dev- libfontconfig1-dev

Library’s names are ase able to search with Web or apt-cache.

$ sudo apt-get install libcups2-dev$ sudo apt-get install libfontconfig1-dev


C++ compiler is not installed

You can use gcc, but some environment is not installed g++ at the first time.Install It.

$ sudo apt-get install g++


OpenJDK is recommended

Of course you can install Oracle JDKYou must add PPA repository to install it.

You can also choose option “--without-java”.I recommend to install OpenJDK

$ sudo apt-get install openjdk-8-jdk


Insufficient libraries / binaries (1)

28 libraries / binaries to complete autogen.shI’m going to show below and next page.

- gperf- doxygen- libxslt1-dev- xsltproc- libxml2-utils- python3-dev- python-dev

$ sudo apt-get install gperf$ sudo apt-get install doxygen...(snip)...


Kerberos library is needed (from 16.4)

Linux Mint 18.x are based Ubuntu 16.4 or 17.4 (current)Libraries for Kerberos is needed.

This note was vanished in TDF wikiBut it remains in Japanese translated wiki.

We need two packages shown below:- comerr-dev- libkrb5-dev

$ sudo apt-get install comerr-dev$ sudo apt-get install libkrb5-dev


Insufficient libraries / binaries (2)

Continue from the previous page.- libx11-dev- libxt-dev- libxext-dev- libxrender-dev- libxrandr-dev- libgtk-3-dev- libdbus-glib-1-dev- libgtk2.0-dev

$ sudo apt-get install libx11-dev$ sudo apt-get install libxt-dev...(snip)...


This is the rest 3 packages to finish script

OpenGL and build tool, test tool.- libglew-dev- ant- junit4

$ sudo apt-get install libglew-dev$ sudo apt-get install ant$ sudo apt-get install junit4


Script was finished, but build will fail

You need one additional package to build LibreOfficeScript’s warning also resolve.

- nasm- libgcrypt11-dev

$ sudo apt-get install nasm$ sudo apt-get install libgcrypt11-dev


Tips building on Linux Mint

You can finish script with installation packages manually.I recommend write what package needed


Conclusion

One night of experience will change your life. Enjoy it!


Continue better habits for your life

You need only enough time to build it.Only a few hours with current machines.

I’m sorry about Arm architectures, evaluation board, etc.You must get “good sleep” for your health.


Demo :

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