RE:STL and ROOTCINT

From: Masaharu Goto (MXJ02154@nifty.ne.jp)
Date: Mon Dec 07 1998 - 12:02:06 MET


Glen,

>I am having trouble using rootcint on code that includes STL classes. 
>According to the archives, this use to be a problem.  Is that still the case 
or>is there a work around?
>
>Thanks for all of your help.  This mailing list has been extremely helpful.
>
>Glen

I like STL. The concept is great. I use it a lot lately. 
Using STL classses in CINT still is a trouble in general. 

 * STL itself is very complex and very difficult to parse
 * Template itself can not be precompiled
 * STL implementation comes with various compilers are still different. It wil
l
   take a few more years to provide platform independent STL solution in CINT.

There is a slight improvement though.  If you use WinNT/9x VC++, you can use
limited set of precompiled STL classes. The build environment is in lib/stl
directory in cint source code distribution.

Masaharu Goto



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