Re: Re: Root 5.20 won't build static on Windows

Tom,

We have 12000 distributions of the source tar file per month. Are your users more stupid than the average? ::)

Rene Brun

Tom Roberts wrote:
> 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 - 18:15:05 CEST