Release Notes for the OpenOffice.org 1.1 RC Release

Last updated May 2003

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General

• System variable requirement
  The configure process requires that the system variables CC and CXX point to the correct version of C and C++ compilers, for example gcc and g++, .

• autoconf
  In case you want to change configure.in, you will need now autoconf version 2.53 to create the configure script.

• Windows build
  The windows build experience was improved and should be easier to go through now.

  • Up-to-date cygwin are now required to run the configure script. The no longer supported historical version "b20" is also no longer supported to build Openoffice.org. The cygwin tools are available at www.cygwin.com.
  • As a new requirement, parts of the February 2003 version of the Microsoft Platfrom SDK have to be installed, in particular the MDAC SDK, the Core SDK and the Internet Development SDK. You can download this from http://www.microsoft.com/msdownload/platformsdk/sdkupdate. The location of the MS PSDK on your system can be passed to configure with the --with-psdk-home option, if configure doesn't find it by itself.
  • As a consequence of the above, the previous requirements of downloading and copying the header files AdoCtint.h and SqlUcode.h into external/downloads is no longer necessary. Newer versions of these headers are part of the MS PSDK. Note that the patches for these files in external/ado and external/odbc had to be adjusted. This has been taken care of in the new sources.
  • All these changes are described in detail in the build documentation, available at http://tools.openoffice.org/dev_docs/build_windows.html.
  • Experimental: Instead of using the proprietary 4NT Software you can now use the tcsh shell from the cygwin tools to build Openoffice.org. This is described in an extra build documentation only for the tcsh case at: http://tools.openoffice.org/dev_docs/build_windows_tcsh.html.

• Solaris/sparc
  The Solaris/sparc version needs the following patches:

  • If you have Solaris 8 (sparc), patches 108434-01 and 108435-01
  • The patches are available at sunsolve.sun.com.
    Instructions:
    • Search for the appropriate patch numbers and download
    • Uncompress the files
    • cd to the directory containing the patches
    • As root, execute the following:
      

      prompt> patchadd [patchnumber]

It is suggested that you use one of the following compilers for building on Solaris/Sparc:

• Forte C++ 6 Update 1
• Forte C++ 6 Update 2
• Forte C++ 7

• Linux

  • You should use gcc version 3.0.x (x > 0) or gcc 3.2.x
  • You can use a bash shell instead of tcsh - in which case you should use the LinuxIntelEnv.Set.sh file for setting up teh environment
  • gtk+ 2.0 is required to build the crash reporter

Features

New features in OpenOffice.org 1.1rc over OpenOffice.org beta2 release:

• a "talkback" style crash reporter to collect stacktrace and error information
• new command line parameter -start to automatically start a presentation after the document is loaded
• ability to update existing OpenOffice.org 1.0.x single user installations
• support for drawing objects in headers and footers
• an example XSLT filter for Office 2003 XML format
• support for MS Excel 95 and older form controls
• UNO python bridge - python is now a first class language for creating UNO components for OpenOffice.org
• built in spell checking dictionaries for English (UK) and Italian
• built in hyphenation support for Danish, English (UK), German and Russian
• integrated Bitstream Vera fonts
• improved spelling suggestions using n-gram scoring

For full list of features please see the OpenOffice.org 1.1 RC features list.

Test results