Code for the LibreOffice main binary (soffice) resides here. The soffice_main
function for the soffice binary can be found here.
Stable Interface
Some of the artifacts built here are part of a LibreOffice installation set's
stable interface, which (programmatic) clients can depend on. Among them are:
soffice
In the program directory (program/ on Linux and Windows, Contents/MacOS/
on macOS).
unoinfo
In the program directory (program/ on Linux and Windows, Contents/MacOS/
on macOS).
When called with a sole argument of c++, it prints to stdout an absolute
pathname denoting the directory where the public URE libraries are found.
When called with a sole argument of java, it prints to stdout a marker
character (either an ASCII '0' or '1') followed by a sequence of zero or more
absolute pathnames denoting jars or directories that need to be included in a
class loader's search locations.
If the marker character is '0' (on Linux and macOS), the pathnames are
encoded as bytes, and any two pathnames in the sequence are separated from each
other by NUL bytes.
If the marker character is '1' (on Windows), the pathnames are encoded as
UTF-16-LE two-byte code units, and any two pathnames in the sequence are
separated from each other by two-byte NUL code units.
Other Binaries
oosplash
Splash screen for the LibreOffice soffice binary.
Extensions
The directory test/deployment contains some extensions to be used for testing:
test/deployment/crashextension: C++ extension to make LibreOffice crash. Useful for testing Crashreporter.
Build with Extension_test-crashextension.
Extension can be found in workdir/Extension/test-crashextension.oxt
test/deployment/passive: C++, Java and Python extension samples with passive registration.
Build with make Extension_test-passive.
Extension can be found in workdir/Extension/test-passive.oxt
test/deployment/active: C++, Java and Python extension samples with active registration.
Build with make Extension_test-active.
Extension can be found in workdir/Extension/test-active.oxt
