Re: compile error on pythia6

Hi,

cygwin's GCC is incompatible with MSVC. You can try to build Pythia with MINGW's GCC which should produce a MSVC compatible library. But really - your best option with Pythia6 is to use Linux, even if it's in a virtual machine.

Cheers, Axel.

On 2010-03-21 01:59, Wei Xie wrote:
> Hi Axel
>
> I'm trying to have a local compile of ROOT with pythia using MSVC. Could
> it be a problem if the libpythia.dll is compiled using gcc instead of
> cl.exe?
>
> Thanks
> --Wei
>
> Axel Naumann wrote:

>> Hi Wei,
>>
>> makePythia6.wingcc is for cygwin gcc, if you want to use cl then use
>> makePythia6.win. You will need a Windows fortran compiler, though, which
>> as far as I know is hard to find these days...
>>
>> Cheers, Axel.
>>
>> On 2010-03-21 01:26, Wei Xie wrote:
>>> I got the package from:
>>>
>>> ftp://root.cern.ch/root/pythia6.tar.gz.
>>>
>>> and run the " makePythia6.wingcc" to produce shared library for further
>>> ROOT compile but got the following err:
>>>
>>> cl : Command line error D8021 : invalid numeric argument
>>> '/Wl,--export-all-symbo
>>> ls'
>>>
>>> Does that mean I need a few more patches or I need a different compiler
>>> other than cl.exe?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> -- Wei
>>>
>>>
>>