Hello Axel,
Just a guess.
Make sure you can properly treat the Win32GDK CPP flags intended to
communicate WIN32 API directly.
Gcc compiler under Cygwin may not handle it properly.
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Best regards
Valeri
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-roottalk@pcroot.cern.ch [mailto:owner-roottalk@pcroot.cern.ch]
On
> Behalf Of Axel Naumann
> Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2004 10:34 AM
> To: HP Beck
> Cc: Roottalk
> Subject: Re: [ROOT] Problems running root under cygwin
>
> Hi HansPeter,
> this problem is currently under investigation; you can follow the
> progress here: http://root.cern.ch/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1382
> Axel.
>
> HP Beck wrote:
> > Dear Root'ers
> >
> > I compiled root 4.01.04 on my WindowsXP Professional SP2 running
cygwin.
> > Following Axel's cookbook, compilation run flawlessly.
> > My LD_LIBRARY_PATH, PATH and ROOTSYS seem to be OK:
> >
> > LD_LIBRARY_PATH /root/lib:/lib:
> > PATH
> > /usr/lib/subversion/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:\
> >
> >
>
/root/bin:/bin:.:/root/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/syste
m32:
> /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS:\
> >
> > /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/System32/Wbem:/cygdrive/c/Program
> > Files/ATI Technologies/ATI Control Panel
> > ROOTSYS /root
> >
> > However, running root doesn't work.
> > The splash-screen appears, as it should, but that's also all of the good
> > news.
> > My xterm window shows then following message
> > >root
> > 2 [main] ? 772 cygheap_fixup_in_child: Couldn't reserve 9891540
> > bytes of space for cygwin's heap (0x61790000 <0xAD0000>) in child, Win32
> > error 487
> > D:\cygwin\root\bin\root_exe.exe (772): *** m.AllocationBase 0x0,
> > m.BaseAddress 0x61790000, m.RegionSize 0x40000, m.State 0x10000
> >
> > When I install the pre-compiled version from
> > ftp://root.cern.ch/root/root_v4.01.04.win32gcc.tar.gz, then root works
> > just fine.
> > So - there must be some additional trick missing in Axel's cookbook.
> >
> > btw - 4.00.08 shows the same behaviour.
> >
> > Any idea out there?
> >
> > kind regards
> > HansPeter
> >
> >
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