Hello Tony
Tony Wyatt wrote at 16.01.2005 23:38:26:
Hi guys,
Spent some hours yesterday reading the OOo hackers' site while downloading the Head from Olegil. Since the best speed I got was about 20k ch/sec and the average was more like 12-13 k ch/sec, I had plenty of time :-P
Anyway, it seems that, unlike Kaffe, there is no existing way to build OOo for a platform different from the build platform, ie to cross-compile. I suggest that this ability is very important to us (and to anyone else trying a port to a new platform). Perhaps adding that functionality to the makefiles would be of benefit, not only to us, but to all personkind.
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I sort of expected to see the same series of steps with OOo, but it looks as though it has never been contemplated or implemented. Should we consider implementing a similar approach for OOo?
Well from what I've seen so far during the build is that there are many packages "bundled" with oo, i.e. freetype, curl (incl. automated patch against 7.12.4 or something) and many others. I also learned that the sourcetree is used on all platforms, only the makefiles differ. IMO we should more focus on getting this thing build directly with the original codebase, adding AmigaOS specific code to the appropiate directories and adapt the makefiles accordingly, this allows us to be in "sync" with the oo codebase. This is really a lot of work, but everything else is IMO useless to try during the huge amount of packages and code involved.
Opinions?
Regards,