RE: Build failure on Windows Xp

> Philippe Canal wrote:
> > The latest release of the build system works around the link.exe
> problem.
> > In v5.16, your best bet is to simply rename cygwin's link.exe to
some
> other
> > name.
>
> I thought I had taken care of that. It turns out my approach was
> insufficient. I had put $HOME/bin first into my PATH, and then put a
> symbolic link from the MS link.exe into $HOME/bin. This worked for
> building Geant4, and for building my program with a binary Root
> distribution and its shared objects.

> Apparently some part of the Root build
> is insensitive that cygwin symbolic link.

ROOT "configure" does not invoke any "link" directly. "Link.exe" is invoked by the Visual C++ "cl.exe" utility. The later has no idea about cygwin environment and cygwin PATH.

> Removing that link and
> renaming Cygwin's link.exe to link-cygwin.exe fixed the problem.

This indicates you did not propagate the Visual C++ env properly. It has been discussed recently. Please, see the approach:

https://lists.bnl.gov/pipermail/qt-root-l/2008-July/000191.html .

It may help you too.

My best regards, Valeri Fine

> Thanks.
>
>
> Tom Roberts
>
>
> > Cheers,
> > Philippe.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-roottalk_at_root.cern.ch

[mailto:owner-roottalk_at_root.cern.ch]
> On
> > Behalf Of Tom Roberts
> > Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 10:09 AM
> > To: 'ROOT Talk'
> > Subject: [ROOT] Build failure on Windows Xp
> >
> > I am trying to build a static library of Root. I have already
succeeded
> > on Linux and Mac OS, and am now working on Windows.
> >
> > I chose Root 5.16 because I've had too many troubles with later
releases
> > (related to building and to plugins).
> >
> > I copied my own configure-disable-all to the Root 5.6 directory and
ran
> > it without problems (file attached below). It disables everything
that
> > can be disabled and still work on Linux and Mac OS X.
> >
> > On Windows I am using the Microsoft VC++ express edition (2005).
This
> > causes the problem that there are two version of link.exe: MS and
> > cygwin. MS link was first in the path when configure was run (when I
> > build Geant4 this is required). Unfortunately each version of
link.exe
> > gives an error:
> >
> > With cygwin link.exe first in PATH:
> > link: invalid option -- D
> > Try `link --help' for more information.
> > make: *** [lib/libCint.dll] Error 1
> > make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> >
> > With MS link.exe first in PATH:
> > link.exe -lib /nologo /machine:I386 /out:./\libpcre-6.4.lib
[...]
> > link: invalid option -- l
> > Try `link --help' for more information.
> > NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'link.exe' : return code '0x1'
> > Stop.
> > make: *** [pcre/src/pcre-6.4/Win32/libpcre-6.4.lib] Error 2
> > make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> > rm utils/src/RStl_tmp.cxx utils/src/rootcint_tmp.cxx
> >
> >
> > How is this supposed to work? Which link.exe is it looking for? How
can
> > I fix this?
> >
> >
> > Tom Roberts
> >
> > --- contents of configure-disable-all (it has 2 lines) ---
> > ./configure --disable-afs --disable-alien --disable-asimage
> > --disable-astiff --disable-builtin-afterimage --disable-castor
> > --disable-cern --disable-chirp --disable-cint7 --disable-cintex
> > --disable-clarens --disable-dcache --disable-exceptions
> > --disable-explicitlink --disable-fftw3 --disable-gdml --disable-gfal
> > --disable-g4root --disable-globus --disable-krb5 --disable-ldap
> > --disable-mathcore --disable-mathmore --disable-minuit2
> > --disable-monalisa --disable-mysql --disable-odbc --disable-opengl
> > --disable-oracle --disable-pch --disable-peac --disable-pgsql
> > --disable-pythia6 --disable-python --disable-qt --disable-qtgsi
> > --disable-reflex --disable-rfio --disable-roofit --disable-rpath
> > --disable-ruby --disable-sapdb --disable-shadowpw --disable-shared
> > --disable-soversion --disable-srp --disable-ssl --disable-table
> > --disable-unuran --disable-winrtdebug --disable-xml --disable-xrootd
> > --disable-xft \
> > --enable-builtin-zlib --enable-builtin-pcre
--enable-builtin-freetype
> >
> >
> >
Received on Fri Aug 01 2008 - 21:14:52 CEST