Thanks--that did the trick. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: First-time build error Date: 25.02.2021 22:53 From: W T <winstontjong@xxxxxxxxx> To: Alan Frank <alan@xxxxxxxxxxx> Hi Alan, I'm relatively new as well and had the same problem a few weeks ago. In my case, Al.exe is part of .NET Framework 4.8 SDK. So I solved the problem by going back to the Visual Studio Installer and modifying the installation to include .NET Framework 4.8 SDK. I chose this because it was the latest version available on my installer. Also, be sure to include Windows Universal C Runtime. I found out that when I chose "Desktop development with C++" workload, .NET Framework 4.8 SDK and Windows Universal C Runtime were not included. You can go to the "Individual components" tab in the "Modifying" window and select them manually. Hope this helps. Winston Tjong On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 5:53 PM Alan Frank <alan@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I am a new developer, trying to get started. Ilmari provided a bunch of resources; I installed lots of software and got to the point where I thought I was ready to build. I entered the command and options from the instructions: /cygdrive/c/sources/libo-core $ /cygdrive/c/sources/libo-core/autogen.sh \ --with-external-tar=/cygdrive/c/sources/lo-externalsrc \ --with-junit=/cygdrive/c/sources/junit-4.10.jar \ --with-ant-home=/cygdrive/c/sources/apache-ant-1.9.5 \ --enable-pch --disable-ccache After lots of successful assertions, I ran into this error: checking for al.exe... configure: error: al.exe not found as /al.exe Error running configure at /cygdrive/c/sources/libo-core/autogen.sh line 316. Line 316: system ("./configure", @args) && die "Error running configure"; The file al.exe does not exist anywhere on my machine. A web search suggests that it comes with the MS Visual Studio install and lives in C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727 (even though there are also folders for v3.0, v3.5, and v4.0.30319). I did that as part of my install, and the directory has 185 files, but no al.exe. I was not able to find any trustworthy place to just download al.exe. --Alan _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
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