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This page provides an overview of documentation related to LibreOffice development. It aggregates links to guidelines, build instructions, code conventions, testing resources, and developer-oriented documentation to help contributors get started and navigate the project.

Getting Started with Development

• Get Involved
• LibreOffice Learning Materials
• Getting Started with LibreOffice Development – Video tutorial in English
• Version control (SCM):
  • Git, LibreOffice’s VCS
  • Gerrit (sending a patch for review)
• Using an IDE to work on LibreOffice
• Developer's Guide (UNO API)
• Pick a task:
  • EasyHacks
  • Easy Hacks related to UI and design
  • Most annoying bugs
  • GSoC Ideas
  • Crazy Ideas (suggestions and enhancement)
• If you need help getting started, contact us:
  • via IRC #libreoffice-dev ^IRC://
  • or writing to the main (development) mailing list
• Google Summer of Code

General Development

• Building LibreOffice -- Tips and Tricks:
  • …on Linux and *BSD systems
  • …on Windows with WSL (generate Windows binaries)
  • …on macOS
  • …on Windows with WSL (generate Linux binaries, not actively supported)
  • …for Android
  • …on any platform (platform-independent hints)
  • …GTK4 interface
  • …online
  • ClangTidy
  • Release builds
  • Branches
• Debugging:
  • How to debug
• Version control (SCM):
  • Getting Unrestricted Commit Access
  • Review bot
• Recent changes:
  • Changes waiting for review
    • ... on master branch
    • ... on all branches
  • Changes recently pushed to master
• General Programming Guidelines

Code Conventions, Code Documentation and HOWTOs

• Code Overview
• Code Conventions / coding style:
  • Code Conventions
  • Trusty old Code Conventions
  • Trusty old Writer Code Conventions, specifically the Naming Conventions
  • Using clang-format
• Code Documentation:
  • use OpenGrok for searching the Code
  • Source Code Documentation
  • Writing Source Code Documentation
  • Public LibreOffice APIs
  • Information from training sessions
• HOWTOs:
  • Write a new-style dialog
  • Debugging
  • Dealing with Dictionaries
  • Hints when developing more Complex Features
  • When and how to make large scale changes
  • How to internationalize templates
  • Removing unnecessary headers from LibreOffice sources

Current Build and Test Status

• Build Status: see overview on Jenkins
• Unit tests:
  • C++ unit tests
  • Python unit tests
  • Unit tests by non developers
  • LCOV Code Coverage reports
  • Regression Hotspots
  • Crashtests
  • UI Tests
• Static code analysis
  • Clang static Source Code Analysis
  • Cppcheck static Code Analyzer
  • Clang tidy source code improver
• Builds
  • Daily builds
  • Pre-Releases
• Fuzz testing
  • Fuzz testing using OSSfuzz

Misc.

• Applications:
  • Writer
  • Calc
  • Impress
  • Base
  • Impress Remote
• Specific areas:
  • Policy on using generative AI
  • Analyzing Documents
  • Build System
  • Environment variables
  • Configuration options
  • Some Notes on String Classes used in the Source Code
  • Some Notes on Sal Types
  • Assertions and Logging
  • Accessibility for developers
  • List of all dispatch commands
• Release Plan
• Acronymia
• LibreOffice Development Blog
• Vim Tips & Tricks
• Extension Development
• FOSDEM 2012 Slides of Talks
• Developer Central
• Archive (links to outdated pages)