Development
From OpenOffice.org Wiki
Get Started from Scratch
You will find how to:
- get the source
- and build OpenOffice.org
step by step in the Building Guide.
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Getting started with OOo development
You are at the start of a long, but very exciting journey! There are many ways to get started, but the easiest one is to:
- Get the source code and build you own OpenOffice.org so that you are able to modify things
 | The Building Guide will walk you through this.[1] |
- Pick up your favorite bug/annoyance, and try to fix that
- When you see that hacking OOo pleases you, it's time to look for bigger tasks, get in contact on IRC or on the mailing list: mailto:dev@openoffice.org
If you want to extend OpenOffice.org with extensions and UNO components take a look at the Development Guide. The easiest way to get started is by using the plugins for Netbeans and for Eclipse.
Development resources
- Development Guide
- Opengrok - source browser
- Mercurial-Webinterface
- OpenOffice.org API
- Environment Information System also called EIS, more infos can be found here.
- Bugtracker
- Environment Variables - a description of handy environment variables used at runtime
- A description of the source directories
Further reading
- Meet the team on IRC
- Using C++ with OOo SDK
- Tutorials - hacker tutorials to get the hang of the code
- Hacking
- Debugging - for when it all goes wrong
- Mercurial and OOo and Subversion - How to use the SCMs that OOo uses
- Contributing Patches - for when you have something to fold back
- Commit Rights - An overview of how to attain commit rights, and what to do with them once you get them
- Tips - misc. hints & tips.
- Compiler versions used by port maintainers and release engineers
- Warning-free Code and Correct C++
- Tinderbox - test new child workspaces and show your build logfile to others
Education project
| If you don't find the instructions in the Wiki good enough to guide you or if you are interested in some aspect that is not covered, feel free to subscribe and ask on the dev@openoffice.org mailing list. See Communication for more infromation on how get in touch with the OpenOffice.org project. |
| Another solution is to contact the Education Project, which aims to find future OpenOffice.org developers, mainly students, who are discovering OpenOffice.org Project. The dedicated Education Project channel is: #education.openoffice.org on freenode |
| On the ClassRoom page, you will find more information about the essentials. For example Practice, or IRC Meetings Logs we did as "ClassRooms". |
