Re: [ROOT] Suggestion for official release of Root under Visual C++.net

From: Fons Rademakers (Fons.Rademakers@cern.ch)
Date: Fri Jan 31 2003 - 17:08:20 MET


I'll try to check for the VC++ compiler level and make the rule only
when that compiler is used (we do that already for some other
compilers).

Cheers, Fons.


On Fri, 2003-01-31 at 17:05, Nick van Eijndhoven wrote:
> Hi Rene,
> Degrading the TStreamerInfo opt level for windows in general
> just because of bugs in the .net compiler is not a good idea
> to my opinion.
> I would suggest that .net users just build their own
> root binaries and use lower opt level as long as the bugs are
> there. Once the .net compiler is in good shape, one could think
> of providing also the binaries for the .net compiler using the
> standard opt level.
> 
>                                                Cheers,
>                                                 Nick. 
> 
> Rene Brun wrote:
> > 
> > Hi Matt,
> > 
> > Thanks for sending your changes to the Makefile. I am surprised
> > to see so many bugs in the MS .NET compiler.
> > 
> > I imported most of your minor changes to the Makefile for the cleanup process.
> > I also took your changes to the Makefile.win32 and incorporated the same
> > mods in Makefile.win32gdk.
> > 
> > I did not take your patch for TTreeFormulaManager.h. I do not want
> > to mess a class because of a MS compiler bug. I changed the destructor
> > to be public instead for all cases. (a pity)
> > 
> > I did not take your mods to degrade the optimisation level when compiling
> > TStreamerInfo. Compiling this class with optimisation is very important.
> > We may introduce a case for Windows in general to compile this class
> > with no optmisation. To be discussed.
> > 
> > Now in CVS.
> > 
> > We do not intend to provide binaries in the short term (next few weeks)
> > for .NET. I encourage Axel in his suggestion to see if binaries compiled
> > under VC++6 work also in the .NET environment.
> > 
> > Rene Brun
> > 
> > Axel Naumann wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Do we need a dedicated .net binary? Or is it sufficient to have the code
> > > patched such that it builds under .net and only have a vc6 binary
> > > version? I believe we should first test whether the root vc6 binaries
> > > work with .net (e.g. aclic needs to be tested); I don't know of any a
> > > priori reason why that shouldn't work. Can someone do that? (I'd
> > > volunteer to do this over the weekend, incorporating Matt's diff into
> > > current cvs sources, but maybe someone else is faster.)
> > >
> > > Cheers, Axel.
> > >
> > > GENTIT Francois-Xavier DAPNIA wrote:
> > > >   Dear members of the ROOT team,
> > > >   I am waiting upon ROOT being distributed for Visual C++.net to install it
> > > > on my PC. I see that it works, seing the message on ROOTTALK by Matthew D.
> > > > Langston. Do you intend to make a download version of ROOT for Visual
> > > > C++.net?
> > > >
> > > > François-Xavier Gentit
> > > > DAPNIA/SPP CEA Saclay
> > > > http://gentit.home.cern.ch/gentit/
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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