Java support in libreoffice

elusian

I'm trying to use a feature of Libreoffice that requires java (VB macros for calc). Libreoffice tells me to select a java installation in the advanced options, but even when pointed to the right folder (/usr/lib/openjdk-{11,17}) it says that no JRE is found there.
Has anyone managed to activate it?

P.S. I also tried to trace trough libreoffice to check what it is actually doing, but apparently there are no debug symbols for the incriminated code, even though I installed libreoffice-dbginfo, is that normal?

alfisya

elusian (/usr/lib/openjdk-{11,17}

Just noticed what you posted, it should be lib64, so /usr/lib64/openjdk-11 or /usr/lib64/openjdk-17.

nolan

probably adding java to PATH variable can fix it

alfisya

This might help : https://help.getsol.us/docs/user/software/development/java

elusian

Both options were already tried, unfortunately

elusian

lib is a symlink to lib64, lib32 is the 32bit one.

I tried, just to be sure, but it does not change.

elusian

So, to summarize my current findings:

libreoffice searches for libjvm.so at
- $JAVA_HOME/lib/amd64/client/libjvm.so
- $JAVA_HOME/lib/amd64/server/libjvm.so
- $JAVA_HOME/lib/amd64/classic/libjvm.so
- $JAVA_HOME/lib/amd64/jrockit/libjvm.so
- $JAVA_HOME/lib/server/libjvm.so
But the openjdk package in Solus provides the library at $JAVA_HOME/lib/client/libjvm.so

Since Libreoffice probably does not really need the server variant, the possible solutions I see are

ask Libreoffice to add a search path
patch Libreoffice to add a search path
build openjdk in the server variant like other distros do (longer build), which is likely why Libreoffice searches in that path
link the openjdk client variant to a server path (which is a lie I guess)

Can anyone in the team comment on this? I can open issues in either project.

alfisya

You can file issue about this with all your research on Solus github here. The staffs track it better that way.

elusian

Makes sense, I was just trying to get feedback on whether this is a Solus issue or a Libreoffice issue before opening a bug in either project.

elusian

https://github.com/getsolus/packages/issues/1626