Re: [ROOT] Root and cygnus ?

From: Radovan Chytracek (Radovan.Chytracek@cern.ch)
Date: Wed May 03 2000 - 19:54:08 MEST


Sylvain HEILLIETTE wrote:
> 
>         Hello,
> 
> I'm tryng to use the ROOT libraries on a Windows 95 system.
> My goal is to compile a data analysis software which was developped
> under linux using Root libraries.
> 
> My question is :
> 
> How is it possible to compile such a program with gcc under the
> cygnus UNIX emulation for Windows (cygwin b20) ?
> 
> Is  it more simple to use the Visual C++ compiler ?

I think that problem sits in the fact that ROOT relies on shared libraries.
Using MSVC++ on Windows platforms is possible to build these without
problems.
The same is for Linux or other U**x operating systems using GNU C++ or their
native compilers.
Problem of Cygwin on Windows is that to build the shared libraries on this
platform using GNU C++ is not that easy. AFAIK this process is pretty
complicated.
That's probably the main reason why ROOT is not built on Windows in the
environment of Cygwin32.

If I am not right correct me, please.

Radovan

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Radovan Chytracek                     LHCb experiment at CERN
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