1Apache 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 https://openoffice.apache.org/ 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 Microsoft Windows 16 macOS (OS X) 17 Linux variants 18 FreeBSD 19 OS/2 20 21 OpenOffice is used by millions of users worldwide and with more than 275 million 22 downloads it is one of the most successful open source projects. 23 24Getting the latest sources via Git 25================================== 26 27 You can always checkout the latest source via Git using the following 28 command: 29 30 git clone https://gitbox.apache.org/repos/asf/openoffice.git aoo 31 32 For further information visit https://openoffice.apache.org/source.html 33 34Building Apache OpenOffice 35========================== 36 37 Apache OpenOffice is a big project and depends on several other external libraries. 38 The list of prerequisites varies for the different platforms. 39 40 A comprehensive and complete building guide can be found in the project wiki under 41 42 https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Building_Guide_AOO 43 44 With having all prerequisites in place you can simply run 45 46 cd aoo/main 47 autoconf 48 ./configure <configure_switches> 49 ./bootstrap 50 source *.set.sh 51 cd instsetoo_native 52 build --all 53 54 Note that building OpenOffice can take several hours. 55 56 The default build will produce a setup version (e.g. setup program on Windows, dmg on macOS, 57 rpm and deb packages on Linux) and an archived version. The output can be found in the 58 <output> directory in instsetoo_native/<output_dir>/Apache_OpenOffice/... 59