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+# Office Development Kit (odk)
+
+Office development kit (`odk`) - implements the first step on the way to the LibreOffice SDK
+tarball.
+
+Part of the SDK; to build you need to add `--enable-odk`.
+
+
+## Testing the Examples:
+
+* Go to `instdir/sdk` (Don't try directly in `odk/`)
+
+* See <https://api.libreoffice.org/docs/install.html> how to set up the SDK.
+
+    * When asked about it during configuration, tell the SDK to do automatic
+      deployment of the example extensions that get built.
+
+* In a shell set up for SDK development, build (calling `make`) and test
+  (following the instructions given at the end of each `make` invocation) each
+  of the SDK's `examples/` sub-directories.
+
+    * An example script to build (though not test) the various examples in batch
+      mode is
+
+        `find examples \( -type d -name nativelib -prune \) -o \`
+        `\( -name Makefile -a -print -a \( -execdir make \; -o -quit \) \)`
+
+        (Note that one of the example extensions asks you to accept an example
+        license on stdin during deployment.)