Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 114372
instsetoo_native: Assembly missing for Windows install
Last modified: 2017-05-20 10:55:59 UTC
I am building OOO330_m3 on Windows with this configure: ./configure --with-lang="is" --with-vendor="OpenOffice.is" --with-build-version="Build by OpenOffice.is" --disable-activex --disable-directx --disable-atl --disable-build-mozilla --disable-nss-module --without-junit --with-cl-home="/cygdrive/C/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0/VC" --with-ant-home="/cygdrive/c/winapps/java/ant" --with-frame-home="/cygdrive/C/Program Files/Microsoft SDKs/Windows/v6.1" --with-psdk-home="/cygdrive/C/Program Files/MicrosoftSDKs/Windows/v6.1" --with-midl-path="/cygdrive/C/Program Files/Microsoft SDKs/Windows/v6.1/Bin" --with-asm-home="/cygdrive/C/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0/VC/Bin" --with-jdk-home="/cygdrive/C/Winapps/java/jdk16" --with-csc-path="/cygdrive/C/WINDOWS/Microsoft.NET/Framework/v3.5" There are no problems configuring and building the install. The problem is after installing the resulting install on Windows XP SP3. Starting for example Writer reports the following: C:\Program Files\OpenOffice.org 3\program\swriter.exe "This application has failed to start because the application configuration is incorrect. Re-installing the application may fix this problem." In the event log this error is seen: "Generate Activation Context failed for C:\Program Files\OpenOffice.org 3\Basis\program\shlxthdl\shlxthdl.dll. Reference error message: The operation completed successfully." "Resolve Partial Assembly failed for Microsoft.VC90.CRT. Reference error message: The referenced assembly is not installed on your system." "Dependent Assembly Microsoft.VC90.CRT could not be found and Last Error was The referenced assembly is not installed on your system." It seems to me the the problem is that the generated install doesn't contain the redistributable vcredist_x86.exe file. This seems to have been changed in some release of the source code, since previous builds before OOO330_m3 worked. If you install the vcredist_x86.exe then OpenOffice.org can be started. The normal install from OpenOffice.org does however contain the vcredist_x86.exe file, so this must be a difference in how the builds are created.
As this is not a support tool, I think this is a question for the mailinglists: dev@installation.openoffice.org or dev@openoffice.org.
Actually this is not a support question. The problem is that the OOo build generates invalid installations for Windows XP. This is the response I got from Mathias Bauer on dev@openoffice.org: "Somewhere on the way to OOo3.2 we changed the way how the vcredist is packed. I'm not sure if it was the intent that there is no configure switch to allow packing with vcredist. The only reasons that come to my mind could be legal issues. Perhaps Martin (on CC) knows that better" This means that either Windows XP has been dropped as a supported platform for the build environment or this is a bug.
As it seems this is indeed a bug in our build system.
should be fixed in configure
take mba last comment as a confirmation for this issue.
Reset assigne to the default "issues@openoffice.apache.org".