[Open Office] Mono Bridge to OpenOffice.org

[Michael Meeks]

Hi Daniel,

On Wed, 2006-07-26 at 09:50 -0700, Daniel Morgan wrote:
> Hmmmm... I guess the OpenOffice (Ximian Edition) list
> is probably the better list to email.

	:-)

> > I'm currently using Ubuntu 6.0.6 LTS.
> > 
> > How do I get a binary add-in of this Mono bridge to
> > work with the OpenOffice.org that comes with Ubuntu?

	As _rene_ says - that may be difficult. IIWY I'd just install OpenSUSE
10.1 to have a play with it :-) Having said that, there is a vicious TLS
bug in Mono just now that breaks the OO.o integration, and the reason
for it is -really- unclear, possibly a glibc issue.

> > I'm not brave enough to build ooo-build just to get
> > C# bindings to OOo.

	Nah - I'm assured that building OO.o on Ubuntu is not that bad; doko
(CC'd) will help you if you're lucky [ wander over to #go-oo on
irc.freenode.net ].

> > And this mono bridge is not built by default. 

	Yes - we are looking for someone enterprising to re-write the managed C
++ type generation piece to use fprintf to generate CLR assembler that
we can assemble into the DLLs; to avoid shipping them.

	If you have some Mono understanding, you only need a tiny portion of
the OO.o source built to take that project on, I'd be eager to help:
it'd be great to get the Mono binding shipped more widely (and up-stream
too).

	HTH,

		Michael.

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