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diff --git a/desktop/README b/desktop/README index 75a189aca354..ff2d4f1af06a 100644 --- a/desktop/README +++ b/desktop/README @@ -1 +1,36 @@ What used to be the desktop in StarOffice 5 - now the binary. + + +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 Mac OS X). + +unoinfo +======= + +In the "program" directory ("program/" on Linux and Windows, "Contents/MacOS/" +on Mac OS X). + +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 byte +(with value zero or one) 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 byte is zero (on Linux and Mac OS X), the pathnames are encoded as +bytes, and any two pathnames in the sequence are separated from each other by +NUL bytes. + +If the marker byte is one (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. |