LibreOffice

The Build Chain and Runtime Baselines

The C++ baseline is C++23. The available features are constrained by the minimum compiler versions.

These are the current minimum operating system and compiler versions to run and compile LibreOffice, also used by the TDF builds:

• Windows:
• Runtime: Windows 10
• Build: wsl-as-helper + Visual Studio 2022
• macOS:
• Runtime: 11
• Build: macOS 14 with Xcode 16.2 or later (using latest version available for a given version of macOS)
• Linux:
• Runtime: RHEL 9 or CentOS 9 and comparable
• Build: either GCC 13; or Clang 18 with libstdc++ 11
• iOS (only for LibreOfficeKit):
• Runtime: 14.5 (only support for newer i devices == 64 bit)
• Build: Xcode 12.5 and iPhone SDK 14.5
• Android:
• Build: NDK 27 and SDK 30.0.3
• Emscripten / WASM:
• Runtime: a browser with SharedMemory support (threads + atomics)
• Build: Qt 5.15 with Qt supported Emscripten 1.39.8
• See README.wasm

Java is required for building many parts of LibreOffice. In TDF Wiki article Development/Java, the exact modules that depend on Java are listed.

The baseline for Java is Java Development Kit (JDK) Version 17 or later.

The baseline for Python is version 3.11. It follows the version available in SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop and the Maintenance Support version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

If you want to use Clang with the LibreOffice compiler plugins, the minimal version of Clang is 18. Since Xcode doesn't provide the compiler plugin headers, you have to compile your own Clang to use them on macOS.

You can find the TDF configure switches in the distro-configs/ directory.

To setup your initial build environment on Windows and macOS, we provide the LibreOffice Development Environment (LODE) scripts.

For more information see the build instructions for your platform in the TDF wiki.