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This page points to FAQ's which are specific to Apple's Mac OS X 10.5 'Leopard'.

See these related articles:

• Mac OS X 10.4 'Tiger', used on Apple Macintosh computers
• Platform-specific issues, for non-Macintosh platforms

• Java Runtime Environment (JRE)
  Where do I get a Java Runtime Environment (JRE) for Mac OS X 10.5 'Leopard'?
• folder does not contain a Java runtime environment
  How do I resolve the message, 'The folder does not contain a Java runtime environment. Please select a different folder.' (OOo 2.3)
• timeout error on startup
  How do I resolve a timeout error which occurs when I start up OpenOffice? (OOo 2.3)

Symphony officially can be built on the following platforms

It's easy for developer to reuse Apache OpenOffice 3.4 build environment to build Symphony's source code. This article assumes that you have already made a successful Apache OpenOffice 3.4 build. If you have not, please refer to the following pages.

• 2Building Symphony on Windows
• 3Building Symphony on MacOSX
• 4Building Symphony on Linux - Ubuntu
• 5Building Symphony on Linux - Suse

Getting Symphony's source code

You can get Symphony's source code from https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/ooo/symphony/trunk/. Please make sure that all the source code directories are under SRC_ROOT and you can locate all modules at '$SRC_ROOT/main'

And icu 4.8.1 source can be download from http://download.icu-project.org/files/icu4c/4.8.1/icu4c-4_8_1-src.tgz, then change its name to af36f635271a239d76d038d6cf8da8df-icu4c-4_8_1-src.tgz and put it in $SRC_ROOT/ext_sources.

The directory/file list under $SRC_ROOT should be

• ext_libraries
• ext_sources
• extras
• help
• l10n
• main
• README

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Building Symphony on Windows

You can make a full build for Symphony with cygwin on Windows platform.

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Software requirements

• Windows XP + SP3 / Windows 7 + SP1
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 + SP1
• JDK 1.6
  • You can get it from http://java.sun.com/javase/6
• Cygwin 1.7
• Ant
• MSSDK
• DirectX
• NSIS
• Mozilla build tools
  • You can get it from http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/libraries/win32/MozillaBuildSetup-1.6.exe
• Microsoft .Net framework V3.5
• dgbhelper.dll
  • You can get it from http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=12745. Please put it in $SRC_ROOT/main/external/dbghelp
• vcredist_x86.exe / vcredist_x64.exe
  • You can get them from http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=13523 and http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=8328. Please put them in $SRC_ROOT/main/external/vcredist
• gdiplus.dll
  • You can get it from http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=18909. Please put it in $SRC_ROOT/main/external/gdiplus
• msvcp80.dll / msvcr80.dll
  • You can get them from C:WINDOWSWinSxSx86_Microsoft.VC80.CRT_1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b_8.0.50727.42_x-ww_0de06acd. Please put them in $SRC_ROOT/main/external/msvcp80
• Microsoft_VC90_CRT_x86.msm / Microsoft_VC90_DebugCRT_x86.msm / policy_9_0_Microsoft_VC90_CRT_x86.msm / policy_9_0_Microsoft_VC90_DebugCRT_x86.msm
  • You can get them from C:Program FilesCommon FilesMerge Modules. Please put them in $SRC_ROOT/main/external/msm90
• Mozilla binary distributions
  • You can get WNTMSCIinc.zip / WNTMSCIlib.zip / WNTMSCIruntime.zip from http://www.openoffice.org/tools/moz_prebuild/OOo3.2/. Please put them in $SRC_ROOT/main/moz/zipped

Starting build

You can run the commands below to start a full build on Windows. Please follow the configure switchers strictly. Symphony does not officially support any other configure switcher.

You can finally get the installation packages on Windows at

Building Symphony on MacOSX

You can make a full build for Symphony on MacOSX 10.5 / 10.6.

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Software requirements

• Mac OS X 10.5.8 / Xcode 3.0 / MacOSX10.5.sdk / gcc 4.0.1 / jdk 1.6
• Mac OS X 10.6.8 / Xcode 3.2.6 / MacOSX10.5.sdk / gcc 4.2.1 / jdk 1.6
• Mac OS X 10.7.4 / Xcode 3.2.6 / MacOSX10.5.sdk / gcc 4.2.1 / jdk 1.6
• Mozilla binary distributions
  • You can get MACOSXGCCIinc.zip / MACOSXGCCIlib.zip / MACOSXGCCIruntime.zip from http://www.openoffice.org/tools/moz_prebuild/OOo3.2/. Please put them in $SRC_ROOT/main/moz/zipped

Starting build

You can run the commands below to start a full build on MacOSX. Please follow the configure switchers strictly. Symphony does not officially support any other configure switcher.

You can finally get the installation packages on MacOSX at

Building Symphony on Linux - Ubuntu

You can make a full build for Symphony with gcc 4.5 on Ubuntu 11.04

Software requirements

• Ubuntu 11.04
• Mozilla binary distributions
  • You can get LINUXGCCIinc.zip / LINUXGCCIlib.zip / LINUXGCCIruntime.zip from http://www.openoffice.org/tools/moz_prebuild/OOo3.2/. Please put them in $SRC_ROOT/main/moz/zipped
• Additional packages
  • Please run the following command to install all the additional packages

Starting build

You can run the commands below to start a full build on Ubuntu. Please follow the configure switchers strictly. Symphony does not officially support any other configure switcher.

You can finally get the installation packages on Ubuntu at

Building Symphony on Linux - Suse

You can make a full build for Symphony on Suse 11.

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Software requirements

• Suse Enterprise Desktop 11
• jdk 1.6
  • You can get it from http://java.sun.com/javase/6
• Ant
• Mozilla binary distributions
  • You can get LINUXGCCIinc.zip / LINUXGCCIlib.zip / LINUXGCCIruntime.zip from http://www.openoffice.org/tools/moz_prebuild/OOo3.2/. Please put them in $SRC_ROOT/main/moz/zipped
• Additional packages
  • Please install addtional packages : gcc, g++, autoconf, cups-devel, pam-devel, gperf, bison, flex, gconf2-devel, gnome-vfs2-devel

Starting build

You can run the commands below to start a full build on Suse. Please follow the configure switchers strictly. Symphony does not officially support any other configure switcher.

You can finally get the installation packages on Suse at