Re: [ROOT] Windows Installation Problem

From: Fons Rademakers (Fons.Rademakers@cern.ch)
Date: Tue Nov 23 2004 - 01:52:28 MET


Hi Axel,

   I also bumped into this problem. Can we add this magic command in the 
Makefile somewhere, like for the "install" target.

-- Fons



Axel Naumann wrote:
> Hi Richard,
> ouch, you found 1/2 a bug in my web page, I'll fix that. Instead of
> \ls bin/*.dll bin/*.exe | rebaseall -T -
> do
> rebase -b 0x60600000 bin/*.exe bin/*.dll
> That will fix the cygheap error.
> Axel.
> 
> Richard J White wrote:
> 
>> Dear all,
>>
>>  I am trying to install Root 4.01/04 from source on Windows XP running 
>> the
>> latest version of cygwin. I have followed axel's instructions from
>> http://www.muenster.de/~naumana/win32gcc.html, stating:
>>
>> cd /cygdrive/c
>> tar xzvf /cygdrive/c/install/root....tar.gz
>> cd root
>> export ROOTSYS=$PWD
>> ./configure win32gcc --build=debug
>> make
>> make map
>> \ls bin/*.dll bin/*.exe | rebaseall -T -
>>
>> all goes well until the last command, where I recive:
>>
>> ReBaseImage (/usr/bin/cygexpat-0.dll) failed with last error = 6
>>
>> I ignore this and continue, defining my enviromental parameters in 
>> .bash_profile
>> by adding:
>>
>> export PATH=$PATH:/c/WINDOWS/system32:/c/WINDOWS
>> #
>> # ROOT
>> #
>> export ROOTSYS='c:\root'   # must be in DOS format (change path!)
>> export PATH=`cygpath -u $ROOTSYS`/bin:$PATH
>>
>>
>> I run startx followed by root. The splash screen appears, then the Xterm
>> freezes and I recieve:
>>
>> $ root
>>       4 [main] ? 2232 cygheap_fixup_in_child: Couldn't reserve 9891540 
>> bytes of
>> space for cygwin's heap (0x61790000 <0xA10000>) in child, Win32 error 487
>> c:\root\bin\root_exe.exe (2232): *** m.AllocationBase 0x613C0000, 
>> m.BaseAddress
>> 0x61790000, m.RegionSize 0x19000, m.State 0x1000
>>
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Kind Regards,
>>
>> Richard White
>>

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