Hi Ray, Did you set the variables ROOTSYS,PATH, etc as described at: http://root.cern.ch/root/Version300.html namely: When running from the MSDOS prompt, you must set the following environment variables, eg in your autoexec.bat: (Restart the system if you set these variables for the first time). set TEMP=c:\temp set HOME=c:\your top directory set TMPDIR=c:\temp set ROOTSYS=c:\root (the directory where you installed Root) set PATH=%PATH%;%ROOTSYS%\bin Rene Brun Raymond Beuselinck wrote: > > Hi, > > I searched in the roottalk archive for the problem I have encountered and I see > that it has been discussed before, but there did not seem to be any clear > resolution as far as I could see. > > I installed root version 2.25/03 on my NT desktop at work which seems to work > fine if I set the ROOTSYS variable and add %ROOTSYS%\bin to my PATH. > > I installed exactly the same version on my laptop which is running Windows 98 > and find that root does not work correctly unless I am running it from the > directory containing the binaries. The problem is not in finding root.exe but > in finding the .dll files which are in that directory. > > There was some discussion in roottalk about .rootrc files and setting the > dynamic path correctly but I could not find a definitive answer to tell me how > to make root work sensibly under win98, i.e. > > 1. What should the necessary configuration file be called ? > 2. Which directory should it be in ? > 3. What must it contain to be able to find the .dll files from anywhere ? > > The zip file containing the windows 95/98/NT version has a file called > system.rootrc (not just .rootrc) located in the top level directory > ( %ROOTSYS% ) which contains the following lines: > > # Path used by dynamic loader to find shared libraries and macros > # Paths are different for Unix and Windows. The example shows the defaults > # for all ROOT applications for either Unix or Windows. > Unix.*.Root.DynamicPath: .:$(ROOTSYS)/lib > Unix.*.Root.MacroPath: .:$(ROOTSYS)/macros > WinNT.*.Root.DynamicPath: ./;$(ROOTSYS)/bin;$(PATH) > WinNT.*.Root.MacroPath: ./;$(ROOTSYS)/macros > > Should this work for Windows 98 ? (I am not even certain that it is looked at > by the root executable.) If not, then how must I change it to make it work ? > I should point out that I am also just beginning to try to learn how to use > root so don't even have any past experience from other platforms to help me. > > Thanks for any help you can give. > > Ray Beuselinck, > Imperial College, London.
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