Re: Root 5.20 won't build static on Windows

I forgot to mention two ironies:
1) C:/root/bin/root starts up just fine without any libfreetype.a, and opens a GUI macro just fine (with lots of fonts that look good and are probably true type fonts).
2) I don't need any fonts at all -- the only classes I use are TFile and TNtuple. Is there some workaround I can use to get static libraries for those classes? While it said it was "Making bin/roota", it was really building libpcre.a, which is needed by libRoot.a (which was built OK).

It seems to me that a greatly-reduced library containing only TFile, TTree, and TNtuple (+ their required dependencies) would be useful for users like me who only do Root I/O in a separate program. The DLLs add ~50 MB to my distribution (no, I cannot expect my users to install the correct version of Root themselves).

Tom Roberts

Tom Roberts wrote:
> This is Windows Xp with Cygwin, VC++ express edition 9.0. I need to
> build it from source, because I need the static library.
>
> Root 5.20 built and runs successfully for me, but "make static" fails:
>
> Making bin/roota...
> build/win/ld.sh -nologo -ignore:4049,4075,4217,4221 -incremental:no -o
> bin/roota
> main/src/rmain.o cint/reflex/src/G__Reflex.o core/base/src/G__Base1.o
> core/base
> /src/G__Base2.o core/base/src/G__Base3.o core/clib/src/G__Clib.o
> core/cont/src/G
> __Cont.o core/meta/src/G__Meta.o core/meta/src/G__TCint.o
> core/metautils/src/G__
> MetaUtils.o core/rint/src/G__Rint.o core/thread/src/G__Thread.o
> core/winnt/src/G
> __WinNT.o geom/geom/src/G__Geom1.o geom/geom/src/G__Geom2.o
> geom/geombuilder/src
> /G__GeomBuilder.o geom/geompainter/src/G__GeomPainter.o
> graf2d/gpad/src/G__GPad.
> o graf2d/graf/src/G__Graf1.o graf2d/graf/src/G__Graf2.o
> graf2d/postscript/src/G_
> _PostScript.o graf2d/win32gdk/src/G__Win32gdk.o graf3d/g3d/src/G__G3D.o
> gui/fitp
> anel/src/G__FitPanel.o gui/ged/src/G__Ged.o gui/gui/src/G__Gui1.o
> gui/gui/src/G_
> _Gui2.o gui/gui/src/G__Gui3.o gui/guibuilder/src/G__GuiBld.o
> gui/guihtml/src/G__
> GuiHtml.o gui/sessionviewer/src/G__SessionViewer.o
> hist/hist/src/G__Hist.o hist/
> histpainter/src/G__HistPainter.o hist/spectrum/src/G__Spectrum.o
> hist/spectrumpa
> inter/src/G__Spectrum2Painter.o html/src/G__Html.o io/io/src/G__IO.o
> io/sql/src/
> G__SQL.o io/xml/src/G__XML.o math/foam/src/G__Foam.o
> math/fumili/src/G__Fumili.o
> math/genvector/src/G__GenVector.o math/genvector/src/G__GenVector32.o
> math/math
> core/src/G__Math.o math/mathcore/src/G__MathCore.o
> math/mathcore/src/G__MathFit.
> o math/matrix/src/G__Matrix.o math/minuit/src/G__Minuit.o
> math/mlp/src/G__MLP.o
> math/physics/src/G__Physics.o math/smatrix/src/G__Smatrix.o
> math/smatrix/src/G__
> Smatrix32.o math/splot/src/G__SPlot.o montecarlo/eg/src/G__EG.o
> montecarlo/vmc/s
> rc/G__VMC.o net/net/src/G__Net.o proof/proof/src/G__Proof.o
> proof/proofplayer/sr
> c/G__ProofDraw.o proof/proofplayer/src/G__ProofPlayer.o
> tmva/src/G__TMVA.o tree/
> tree/src/G__Tree.o tree/treeplayer/src/G__TreePlayer.o
> tree/treeviewer/src/G__Tr
> eeViewer.o lib/libRoot.a advapi32.lib lib/libfreetype.a lib/libpcre.a
> LINK : fatal error LNK1181: cannot open input file 'lib/libfreetype.a'
> make: *** [static] Error 157
>
> This looks to be related to the ttf (true type fonts) feature, which is
> crazy on Windows (the home of true type fonts)....
>
> Suggestions?
>
>
> Tom Roberts
>
Received on Tue Mar 31 2009 - 18:11:24 CEST