libvisio

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    libvisio
    Microsoft Visio import library
    The Document Liberation Project
    Development statusStable
    LicenseMPL 2.0
    MaintainersDavid Tardon (dtardon@redhat.com)
    Eilídh McAdam (tibbylickle@gmail.com)
    Fridrich Strba (fridrich.strba@bluewin.ch)
    Repositorygit://gerrit.libreoffice.org/libvisio
    Sourceshttp://dev-www.libreoffice.org/src/libvisio

    Libvisio is a library that parses the file format of Microsoft Visio documents of all versions.

    Getting the sources

    libvisio sources are stored in git. To get them, you can use:

    git clone git://gerrit.libreoffice.org/libvisio

    or you can browse the code online.

    Source tarballs of all released versions can be found here.


    Building the code

    You will need these tools and libraries to build libvisio:

    autotools-dev
    automake
    libtool
    boost
    gperf
    icu
    librevenge-dev
    libxml2
    perl
    doxygen # optional for documentation building (can be disabled by passing --without-docs to configure)
    

    Once you have the source code and the dependencies, you can proceed to build. To do that, run the customary sequence of commands in the source code directory:

    ./autogen.sh ''# only needed for building from git''
    ./configure
    make

    To run tests you could type command:

    make check

    To install library in /usr/local/ directory (e.g. /usr/local/lib/libvisio-0.1.so):

    make install

    To configure and build LibreOffice, to use locally installed libvisio:

    ./autogen.sh --with-system-libvisio 
    make

    Contributing

    Hacking

    There are several ways to analyse Visio files:

    The information about LibreOffice Draw file format is available here.

    Documentation about Visio file format (.vsdx) is available at Microsoft page.

    The information how to setup development environment is available at: libvisio-setup

    Integration to repository

    Once you have made a change that you are happy with, contribute it back, we'll be happy to integrate it! There are two ways to get your contribution to us:

    1. Submitting it to gerrit (strongly preferred, easier if you already have done the initial setup). How to work with gerrit is described here. Example of creating review:
      git push ssh://gerrit.libreoffice.org:29418/libvisio HEAD:refs/for/master
    2. Sending a patch.
      git format-patch origin/master -1
      will create one or more patch files. These you can send to libreoffice@lists.freedesktop.org. Please prefix the subject with [PATCH] libvisio: .