Re: Command-line arguments with Root 2.21/08 under NT

From: Matthew D. Langston (langston@SLAC.stanford.edu)
Date: Fri Apr 16 1999 - 20:08:41 MEST


Hi Jonathan,

> I am a bit frustrated that there is no way for me to build root on my
> system, or else I could run it under a debugger and see where the
> problem comes in.
>
> Do you know if Rene and friends plan ever to release a makefile for
> NT?).

Although this won't help you today, I wanted to tell you about an
Autoconfed version of ROOT that has the potential to solve your problems
under Win9x/WinNT.

I added GNU Autoconf, Automake and Libtool support to ROOT, which in
principle allows one to build ROOT on any platform however they wish
(e.g. debugging, non-debugging and highly optimized, etc.).  However,
this version of ROOT is currently only known to work on UNIX systems.

We are waiting for a Win9x/WinNT developer to tell us the build
procedure for ROOT on this platform so that we can add Win9x/WinNT onto
the list of supported platforms for the Autoconfed version of ROOT.  If
you are such a developer, or you know someone who would be interested in
contributing this, then please let me know.

For more information, you can read the announcement of this package from
the RootTalk Digest at
http://root.cern.ch/root/roottalk/roottalk99/0699.html.  I have included
the relevant part of the announcement below:

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If you are a Windows 95/98/NT user, then you will need to install Cygwin
on your system in order to obtain these tools - see
http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/ for more information.  However, I
am almost certain that the current version of the Autoconfed ROOT will
not build on a Win32 system even if you have Cygwin installed.  This is
because the "build instructions" for Windows 95/98/NT were not included
in the original ROOT sources (i.e. there was no Makefile.win32 to guide
me), and hence I could not added the Win32 build procedures to
`lib/Makefile.am'.  If a Windows 95/98/NT user knows what these build
procedures are, then please forward them onto me and I will add them to
the CVS repository.  This change should be pretty simple, and I am
excited to get ROOT to bootstrap itself on a Win32 system ASAP.
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--
Matthew D. Langston
SLD, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
langston@SLAC.Stanford.EDU
541.346.4722



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