[Open Office] Visual Studio 2003 .NET or Visual Studio 2005

[Tor Lillqvist]

On må, 2006-05-01 at 21:00 +0200, Robert Vojta wrote:
>  anyone here is building OpenOffice.org for Microsoft Windows? 

Sure.

> I tried
> to build OpenOffice.org with Visual Studio 2003 .NET Professional and it
> works perfectly. Anyone here has an experience with Visual Studio 2005?

Don't think so. VS .NET 2003 Professional is the officially supported
version. Some people have managed with the "Standard" version, which is
a lot cheaper (but doesn't do optimization, AFAIK).

> I would like to buy an official license for the OpenOffice.org building
> and they're trying to sell me the 2005 version. Is this version
> supported? Why I'm asking - I do not want to buy 2003 now and 2005 after
> few months, because it will be mandatory.

I can't speak for Sun, but I doubt they will make using the 2005 version
mandatory in the short term.

I find it more likely that it will be possible to use gcc (mingw) to
build OOo on Windows eventually, although I don't know how actively this
is being worked on.

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