Hi Christian, on Windows only the installation using MS Visual C++ is supported for the time being (./configure win32). The build process needs cygwin, but for running the executable you don't need cygwin. Building using gcc under cygwin is currently not supported (should be ./configure win32gcc). This build would need cygwin also to run the executable. If you are willing to make this port we are happy to support it. Cheers, Fons. Christian Holm Christensen wrote: > > 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 -- 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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