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

From: Valery Fine (Faine) (fine@bnl.gov)
Date: Fri Apr 16 1999 - 20:25:53 MEST 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-roottalk@hpsalo.cern.ch
> [mailto:owner-roottalk@hpsalo.cern.ch]On Behalf Of Matthew D. Langston
> Sent: Friday, April 16, 1999 2:09 PM
> To: fine@bnl.gov
> Cc: Jonathan M. Gilligan; Root Talk
> Subject: Re: Command-line arguments with Root 2.21/08 under NT
> 
> 
> 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.


  ROOT is a collection of the dynamic libraries DLL's.
  The "test" subdirectory of the ROOT Developer kit contains an example of
  Makefile to build ROOT DLL's and executables.

  You make compare this makefile with those on UNIX to find Windows NT 
  features.

  For STAR at Brookhaven National Laboratory offline we are using the single
  makefile for all platforms and "standard"  GNU make to create STAR ROOT-based
  DLLs for Windows NT.  The GNU make was downloaded from the "regular" 
  GNU FTP site

             prep.ai.mit.edu

  and was compiled just out-off-box with no Cygnus extra tools to be
  installed / envolved.

  I'd like to mention the code for Windows NT is compiled with DEBUG information
  and it is HIGH optimized at the same time.

                          Valery

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