Bypass Office installation

[DecimalTurn]

There are a lot of tools developed by @Beakerboy that could be used to build VBA projects without having to use Office.
Those projects are taking the approach of compiling the vbaProject.bin file that the Office application generates normally.

Example implementation for an Excel Addin (.xlam):
https://github.com/Beakerboy/VBA-CI-CD-Test/blob/dev/.github/workflows/build_addin.yml

[Beakerboy]

The visual basic part is very complicated. Creating a file that includes Visual Basic code requires special encryption techniques, as well as packaging the encrypted code into OLE containers, and then creating a very specific zip file. The packages I have are still kind of buggy, but I am totally open to more people helping and looking at the code.

[DecimalTurn]

Yeah, I know this isn't a small task but it seems that your projects have made a lot of progress towards something that could be functional.

Are the current bugs documented somewhere?

[Beakerboy]

I use the GitHub issues queue for everything.