RE: [ROOT] Problem with the new win32gcc target

From: Valeri Fine (fine@bnl.gov)
Date: Sun Apr 27 2003 - 06:09:53 MEST


Hello Rene,

>  I see that all ROOT benchmarks using gcc3.2 run at the same speed as
>  on native Linux. The I/O benchmarks like stress run much better
(nearly
>  a factor 2!) than under MS win32. I am currently running more tests
>  to understand why.

 [Valeri Fine] 
Comparing the benchmarks please take in account when you run ROOT under
Cygwin the part jobs is provided by other processes (Those started by
Cygwin DLL to provide UNIX-like I/O for example). That time may not have
been counted properly by the "regular" ROOT benchmarks.

  Valeri

> 
>  This option looks potentially attractive because it has the
advantages
>  of Linux and Windows combined in an efficient way.
> 
>  Rene Brun
> 
> 
> On
> Fri, 25
> Apr 2003, Damir Buskulic wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I tried to compile root on Windows (Me) with the yet unanounced
win32gcc
> > target. But I didn't succeed. Here are the steps I took :
> >
> > - install cygwin in it's full glory (with xfree+gcc+...) from the
web
> > - download and prepare the root sources
> > - set up the environment variables as described for windows
> > - try to do "make". It ends up at the first call of depend.sh with
> >
> > build/unix/depend.sh main/src/h2root.d "-pipe -Wall
-Woverloaded-virtual
> > -D_DLL -Iinclude -I/usr/X11R6/include" main/src/h2root.cxx >
> > main/src/h2root.d
> >
> > Does anyone has ideas about what is going on ? or is it too early to
try
> > without clear instructions ?
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Damir
> >
> >
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