Hi Valeri et al, On Mon, 21 May 2001 21:53:42 -0400 "Valeri Fine" <fine@bnl.gov> wrote concerning ": [ROOT] Cygwin setup to install ROOT in Windows": > Hello team, can you add a few lines to your page: > http://root.cern.ch/root/Cygwin.html Uh, is this using the configure option "win32" or "win32egcs"? That is, are we usng the Micros**t (Un)Visual C++ compiler/linker or is it using GCC? Last time I tried to compile ROOT using Cygwin GCC, I got loads of errors regarding missing functions (especially in the CINT code, though it may not be Masa's problem) - one I can remember of the top of my head was "unlink". So the question really is: Can ROOT be compiled with Cygwin GCC now? > to call the user's attention they have to "mount" Cygwin drive > at once properly as follows: > > http://www.cygwin.com/faq/faq_4.html#SEC45 > > It says: > You can avoid the ambiguity of Windows paths, and avoid > > typing "/cygdrive", by explicitly mounting drives to posix paths. For example: > > bash$ mkdir /c > bash$ mount c:/ /c > bash$ ls /c Another thing worth noticing, is that Cygwin will keep your mount points from session to session (much like GNU/Hurd by the way), so you in principle only need to do this once, that is when you install Cygwin. As of version 1.0 of Cygwin (the one after b20 I think), this is done more or less for you. There's a switch to "mount" that will show you the mount table. > Then `/cygdrive/c/Windows' becomes `/c/Windows' which is a little > less typing. To get a better Un*x-like feel, why not just do prompt% mount c:/WINDOWS /usr/local/windows prompt% mount c:/Program\ Files /usr/local/opt or something like that. Having said that, Valeri is right; cygdrive is only for last-resort stuff. Valeri, do you know if cygdrive is really a Translator, like in GNU/Hurd? It looks a bit like it is, and it would make sense too. > Hope this helps What would be really need was to be able to compile ROOT with Cygwin GCC (since that means we could compile our analysis software using GCC and Autotools - well almost). Yours, Christian ----------------------------------------------------------- Holm Christensen Phone: (+45) 35 35 96 91 Sankt Hansgade 23, 1. th. Office: (+45) 353 25 305 DK-2200 Copenhagen N Web: www.nbi.dk/~cholm Denmark Email: cholm@nbi.dk
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