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This document describes building OpenOffice.org on Solaris.

= Requirements =
== Hardware Requirements ==

* Solaris/x86: one or more reasonable fast CPUs, x-way CPU's recommended.
* Solaris/Sparc: UltraSparc III
* 2 GB RAM
* 10 GB free disk space
* if you don't have a lot of RAM (less than 4GB?) set TMPDIR to a directory that is not on tmpfs

== Software Requirements ==

* Solaris 10, OpenSolaris 2008.5 or higher, Solaris 11 Express
* C/C++ Compiler: SunStudio 8, SunStudio 10 - SunStudio 12, SunStudio Express, newer compilers will likely work with a little tweaking (but rumor has it that 12update1 breaks on some boost stuff)

= Solaris 11 Express =

This section describes building on version <code>snv_151a</code>.
Note that only DEV300_m106 or newer contains the necessary fixes in the OOo code.

== Prerequisites ==

You need to <code>pkg install</code> at least the following additional packages:
* mercurial (to get at the source code)
* system/header
* header-math
* developer/java/jdk
* developer/java/junit
* developer/build/ant
* developer/gperf
* developer/gnome/gettext
* developer/parser/bison
* developer/lexer/flex

The only dependencies that are not in the Solaris Express repository are the SunStudio compiler and the Perl module <code>Archive::Zip</code>.

To install the Perl module, use CPAN (i'm afraid you need to su to root to do this):

  # PATH=/path/to/sunstudio/SUNWspro/bin:$PATH /usr/perl5/bin/perl -MCPAN -e 'shell'
  cpan> install Archive::Zip
  cpan> exit

== Building OOo ==

It is necessary to put SunStudio on the path, otherwise the build will break in stlport.
Also, set the <code>CC</code> and <code>CXX</code> variables.

  PATH=/path/to/sunstudio/SUNWspro/bin:$PATH
  ./configure CC=/path/to/sunstudio/SUNWspro/bin/cc CXX=/path/to/sunstudio/SUNWspro/bin/CC 

Building with <code>--enable-werror</code> should work with SunStudio 12.

If configure runs successfully, the build should work just like on other platforms.

= See Also =
* [[OpenSolaris Build Instructions]]
[[Category:Solaris]]