Hi Radovan, Hi Silvain, We are currently polishing a new development/installation environment based on CVS. Under NT, we assume that the CYGWIN environment is there. It is our intention to support VC++ initially as we do now. If everything is OK, one could in principle imagine to support the standard g++ compiler as well. However, we have no experience yet with g++ under CYGWIN and cannot take a commitment to support it at this point in time. Once, in a few weeks, our new system is ready, we can make a test with g++ and see if there are problems. I am curious to know how many people would be interested by a version of Root compiled with g++ under Windows ? Rene Brun On Wed, 3 May 2000, Radovan Chytracek wrote: > 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 > > -- > > Radovan Chytracek LHCb experiment at CERN > e-mail: Radovan.Chytracek@cern.ch WWW: http://home.cern.ch/~chytrace > phone: +41 22 76 72486 >
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