April 2005 - Openoffice-os4 - Studentersamfundet

Amizilla Joint Project
by Mark Bond 21 Apr '05

21 Apr '05

Hi, This is mainly aimed at hnl_dk as he was looking at creating an X11 wrapper, but a member of the Amizilla team has contacted us regarding working on a GTK library/port, and is asking if we would like to work on a joint project. It may be worth hnl_dk working with them on the X11 wrapper (ie if the X11 spoke to AOS/MUI/Reaction/whatever and then GTK spoke to the X11 wrapper). The link is here: http://www.amigaopenoffice.org/index.php?option=com_simpleboard&Itemid=26&f… Regards, Mark

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new build guides
by Henning Nielsen Lund 16 Apr '05

16 Apr '05

There has come some new build guides, and now they are for OOo2(beta) :-) Linux (x86) http://tools.openoffice.org/dev_docs/build_linux.html Solaris http://tools.openoffice.org/dev_docs/build_solaris.html DarwinPPC/MacOS X http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/build_680_X11.html Windows http://tools.openoffice.org/dev_docs/build_windows_tcsh.html A good thing about the Windows guide is that it gives a more complete list about utilities that are needed... -- Best regards, hnl_dk - Henning Nielsen Lund

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CSH status update.
by Peter Bengtsson 05 Apr '05

05 Apr '05

After installing gcc-3.4.0 and configuring it to use clib2 (with a severely kludged specs file), I have now tried to compile every source file in the tcsh source distribution as a quick way to determine the feasibility of porting it. I am happy to write that with a few exception it seems the tcsh source is _relatively_ portable. The main areas which seem to need a bit of work are the following: * termios * missing signals * resource limits * multi-user support * fork()/vfork() Of these, only the missing signals and fork()/vfork() appears to pose any significant problem and as a positive side-effect, we might contribute further to the development of clib2 (just an idea). The ixemul-compiled tcsh binary is extremely unstable on my machine and crashes randomly, usually in less than 15 seconds. It does, however, appear to handle csh scripts - which the older csh implementation did not (it only handled a subset). Unfortunately, this still does not indicate if it would be easier to write our own intepreter or not. -Peter aka. Archprogrammer, still investigating. PS: If this is uninteresting, just tell me and I will stop posting status updates here. Reality is for people who cannot face ScienceFiction. Only lefthanded people are in their right minds.

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libusb library chrashes
by Rene W. Olsen 03 Apr '05

03 Apr '05

Hello I have BIG trouble with my library for libusb and I cant find any error in the source code :( So if there is a library guru in here thats want to help me track down my error(s).. I can compile the barebone library with no problem but I cant open the library without the system freezing, and the openlib program never returns. I looks like it hangs in the library init function. I have striped all the function to track down the nasty error HELP PLEASE The source files can be found here: http://www.rwo.dk/libusb.lha Kind regards Rene W. Olsen

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PR, Banner Ads, Slogan etc..
by David Doyle 02 Apr '05

02 Apr '05

I think it's time we raised the profile of this project. Banner advertising is currently low on Amigaworld.net so I am willing to give the Amiga Openoffice.org project a free Banner slot on the site while advertising is low, so be quick and take this opportunity for free advertising to raise Amiga Openoffice.org's profile. So, did we decide on a slogan and banner? Regards David Doyle (DaveyD) Owner/Webmaster Amigaworld.net

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