Porting Project

For information on porting the office suite, see the following documents:

Porting Status for Various Operating Systems

Mac OS X, Shaun McDonald and others (X11 version stable; Aqua version in progress). Mailing list: mac@porting.openoffice.org
LinuxPPC, by Rich Johnson, Christer Gustavsson, Kevin "B" Hendricks (completed)
Linux/PPC64 by Caolan McNamara (completed)
Linux/AMD64 by Jan Holesovsky and others (completed)
Linux/Alpha by Andrei A. Dergatchev (stalled)
Linux/ARM [oabi] & Linux/ARM [eabi] by [oabi] Peter Naulls and [eabi] Caolan McNamara (completed)
Linux/MIPSEL & Linux/MIPS(EB) by [el] Sunil Amitkumar Janki, lemote and [eb] Caolan McNamara (completed)
Linux/Sparc by Jim Watson
Linux/IA64 by Caolan McNamara (completed)
Linux/s390 by Gerhard Tonn (completed)
IRIX, by the a SGI team ( Nick Blievers, George Zahopoulos, Victor A. Riley, Jeff Hanson, and many thanks to John Mark Vandenberg )
FreeBSD, by NAKATA, Maho
Tru64 by Joel Martin
NetBSD/Sparc by Michael Rauch (build completed)
OS/2 by Yuri Dario (Innotek does provide a FontEngine and a Runtime component for OS/2, that makes a slightly modified Windows version run on OS/2. This modified Windows version lacks support of the Quickstart feature, Mobile Devices, Python and platform specfic file dialogs).
OpenVMS by Martin Borgman,Ton van der Zwet, B.A.J. van Pelt
Zeta has been canceled
AIX by Ken Foskey See issuezilla for more info

* No patches available yet.

To create a new port, please contact Martin Hollmichel.

Modules in Porting Project
Module	Function
sal (osl/rtl namespaces)	System Abstraction Layer. Low level API for the integration of all supported platforms. Defines a platform independent C language API to be used in a generic way in higher layers.

To Do's
List	Contact
Mac OS X The Mac OS X port of OpenOffice.org has still some way to go (see http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/ for details)	ericb@openoffice.org or mac@porting.openoffice.org
Release of successful ports on regular basis Once ports (e.g. *BSD) has been made, people are needed for doing and providing the builds on a regular basis	dev@porting.openoffice.org
Create a new port There is a cerain demand for doing a port e.g. for HP/UX. AIX, OS/2 etc. At the moment there are no efforts visible for such a port. Create one !	dev@porting.openoffice.org

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