RUNO

RUNO is a Ruby-UNO [‘ju:nou] (Universal Network Object) bridge. UNO is used to construct OpenOffice.org so that you can play with the office. RUNO is implemented as Ruby extension library written in C++, but the bridge is not so fast because value conversion and multiple API call consume time. RUNO is not suite task like template creation, generating ODF (Open Document Format) is better for the task.

How to Compile

You need following things to compile:

• OpenOffice.org and OpenOffice.org SDK (3.x?)

• Ruby (> 1.8.7?) and its header

Package version is not well checked.

Install OpenOffice.org and SDK. And then setup the SDK with configure.pl script equipped in the SDK. After that you can find shell script named “setsdkenv_ENV.EXT” to set environmet variables for compilation in the ~/openoffice.orgVERSION_sdk/HOST.DOMAIN directory. The directory and file name is system dependent, please read SDK documentation.

For example, compilation procedure is like the following:

> . ~/openoffice.org3.2_sdk/localhost/localdomain/setsdkenv_unix.sh
> ruby extconf.rb
> make
> make site-install

compilation is successfully finished, runo.so file is created.

Current version has problem to link against ruby library on Windows environment. I couldn’t fix it, investication required.

Environment Variables

RUNO needs a few environmet variable settings befor to run work correctly.

• LD_LIBRARY_PATH (for Linux or UNIX) or PATH (for Windows)

To find libraries of UNO (or OpenOffice.org).

• URE_BOOTSTRAP

Specifies fundamental(rc|.ini) file with vnd.sun.star.pathname protocol.
e.g. vnd.sun.star.pathname:/opt/ooo-dev3/program/fundamentalrc