RE: Shall we not use ROOT in cygwin at all ?

> The advantage I referred is really because I'm a Linux user. The way
to
> use GCC version of ROOT in cygwin is exactly the same as in a linux
> machine. One can run ROOT in a xterm in any directory and can also use
> mouse to copy any text into the root prompt.

You do build ROOT using Cygwin and Visual C++ right now. You can use the Cygwin shell console to start the ROOT (compiled with Visual C++ ) too.

To do that you need to set ROOTSYS and PATH environment variable (compare, on linux you need to set PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH)

Let's assume you built ROOT with cygwin under "~/root" directory Can you keep that cygwin widget open and set

    cd ~/root
    export ROOTSYS=`pwd`
    export PATH=$ROOTSYS/bin:$PATH
    root.exe

So the only difference between Linux and Windows is the name of the second variable (PATH) to set.

Can you try that?

Thank you. Received on Thu Jun 25 2009 - 00:26:39 CEST