Hi Anton, it's not so easy. In theory we could make on Windows a version of ROOT built with gcc and linked against the X11 libs. Then if you install an X server on Windows you can run the ROOT GUI natively via the local X server. This would require cygwin to be available at run-time (which might become less of a problem now that cygwin is nicely packaged and easy to install) and an X server. However, our current cygwin based ROOT install uses the Visual C++ compiler to build ROOT with the Win32 interface. This version is totally independent of cygwin at run-time and can be run on any Windows PC. It might be indeed worth while trying to build ROOT with the configuration: ./configure linuxegcs on cygwin to see what happens. Let me know. Cheers, Fons. KOSU_FOKIN@garbo.lucas.lu.se wrote: > > Hi rooters, > > I've never used Cygwin before, so I would like > to be sure if it can do the job for me. > > My question is: if I install Cygwin, would I be > able to compile and run ROOT GUI applications > under windows? How will it look like? After reading > Cygvin overview I get a feeling that I can do the > following under win 98/NT > > - Install Cygwin > - download and install ROOT for Linux > - recompile my GUI ROOT program for Linux with Cygwin lib > - run it uder windows > > Am I right? > > Best regards, > Anton -- Org: CERN, European Laboratory for Particle Physics. Mail: 1211 Geneve 23, Switzerland E-Mail: Fons.Rademakers@cern.ch Phone: +41 22 7679248 WWW: http://root.cern.ch/~rdm/ Fax: +41 22 7677910
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