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

Hi Valeri

Sorry for flooding the list. I think I got the solution based on all the discussion of the thread. The following is the steps in case others are interested in. In any of the xterm,

o type "cygstart root" which leads a console with root prompt. o pull down the console menu and click on the properties o then click on options
o check the "QuickEdit Mode" box and click OK. o check the "Save properties for future windows with the same titles.

Through all these steps, I can use the VC++ version almost in the same manner of GCC version in cygwin.

Thanks for all the helps
--Wei

Fine, Valeri wrote:
> Hi Vlad,
>
> Thank you for your hint.
>
> Frankly, I have not tried to use ROOT from cygwin console. I did not see any needs for that.
>
> Normally, I use the http://sourceforge.net/projects/console as console and either MS Studio or the notepad++ http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm as a text editor.
>
> What I have been trying to explain that we are speaking about is NOT GCC vs VC++ topic . It is Win32 vs X11 issue. The person wants to use X11 based application and want to compile it with GCC. Ok he can. However, I do not want this conversation to confuse the other ROOT users.
>
> Thank you, Valeri
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: Vladimir Savinov [mailto:vladimirsavinov_at_gmail.com]
> Sent: Thu 6/25/2009 12:12 AM
> To: Fine, Valeri
> Cc: Wei Xie; ROOT Talk
> Subject: Re: [ROOT] Shall we not use ROOT in cygwin at all ?
>
>
> Hi Valeri,
> no - it's the same well-known problem
> (that starting ROOT from inside CYGWIN
> by just typing "root" or "root.exe" causes
> this weird condition - however, it's irrelevant,
> as there are always many ways to skin a cat:
> e.g., in case of ROOT from inside CYGWIN,
> it's all very simple: ROOT compiled with
> VC++ is NOT an X11 application, so one should
> expect that the right way to start it from CYGWIN is
>
>
> cygstart applicationname
>
>
> just try something like
>
>
> cygstart acroread
>
> cygstart acrobat
>
> cygstart explorer
>
> etc etc
>
> so for ROOT compiled with VC++
>
> it is, naturally,
>
> cygstart root
> or
> cygstart root.exe
>
> v
>
>
>
>
> Fine, Valeri wrote:
>
> Can you start "root.exe" rather "root" ?
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: Vladimir Savinov [mailto:vladimirsavinov_at_gmail.com]
> Sent: Wed 6/24/2009 10:07 PM
> To: Wei Xie
> Cc: Fine, Valeri; ROOT Talk
> Subject: Re: [ROOT] Shall we not use ROOT in cygwin at all ?
>
>
>
> do
>
>
> cygwin:c> cygstart `which root`
>
>
>
>
> 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 <http://root.cern.ch/> <http://root.cern.ch/> <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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