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

Hi Valeri

I take back what I said in the following. VC++ version have no problem in cygwin console (I just tried and it worked). The following problem shows up when running it in xterm console. The following is what I did:

cygwin:~> export DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0
cygwin:~>xterm&

Then I go to the xterm and type root.exe and the probably mentioned in the following message shows up.

Thanks
--Wei

Wei Xie wrote:
> Hi Valeri
>
> Thanks for all the feedbacks.
>
> I did try what's mentioned in the following. The difference is I
> directly downloaded the binary of VC++ from ROOT website instead
> building it myself. When run ROOT, it hangs after printing out the
> version number as the following. Will it make a difference if I build
> the ROOT myself? I have no problem to run the gcc version of ROOT.
>
> ////////////////////////
> cygwin:c>root -b
> *******************************************
> * *
> * W E L C O M E to R O O T *
> * *
> * Version 5.22/00 17 December 2008 *
> * *
> * You are welcome to visit our Web site *
> * http://root.cern.ch *
> * *
> *******************************************
>
> ROOT 5.22/00 (trunk_at_26997, Jan 05 2009, 10:56:00 on win32)
>
> CINT/ROOT C/C++ Interpreter version 5.16.29, Jan 08, 2008
> Type ? for help. Commands must be C++ statements.
> Enclose multiple statements between { }.
> //////////////////////////////////////////////
>
> Cheers
> --Wei
>
>
> Fine, Valeri wrote:

>>> 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.
>>

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