I have been trying to build root 6.24.99 on Windows 10 from source for 10 days hitting several hurdles that I managed to overcome by searching (extensively) the forum. But I have to admit that I am hitting a wall I do not understand and I need your help.
I am building on “Visual Studio 2019 Developer Command Prompt v16.8.4” (x86 Native Tools Command Prompt) with the following command:
cmake -G “Visual Studio 16” -A Win32 -Thost=x64 -DCMAKE_VERBOSE_MAKEFILE=ON -DPYTHON3_EXECUTABLE=“C:/Users/AE265409/Anaconda3/python.exe” -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=“C:/Users/AE265409/Desktop/ROOT/root6.24install” …/root6.24source 1> config.txt 2>&1
Here is the std output of the cmake config. config.txt (10.6 KB)
Here is the CMakeCache file CMakeCache.txt (127.7 KB)
Here is the std output of the cmake build : build.txt (2.8 MB)
And here are the CMakeFiles/CMakeError.log and CMakeOutput.log files : CMakeOutput.txt (42.5 KB) CMakeError.txt (82.0 KB)
As you can see, the build exits with the following error for hsimple.root.
237>C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\BuildTools\MSBuild\Microsoft\VC\v160\Microsoft.CppCommon.targets(238,5): error MSB8066: la build personnalis‚e de ‘C:\Users\AE265409\Desktop\ROOT\BUILDR\CMakeFiles\878838cc6fd03be61fd5906849e3c9b6\hsimple.root.rule;C:\Users\AE265409\Desktop\ROOT\BUILDR\CMakeFiles\073235653d2176b88ef823a2194ec159\hsimple.rule’ s’est arrˆt‚e. Code -1073741515. [C:\Users\AE265409\Desktop\ROOT\BUILDR\hsimple.vcxproj]
@bellenot I know you are very knowledgeable on root for windows (from different posts in which you always replied), would you by any chance have an idea (and time) ?
Thank you very much for any help you guys can give me,
I don’t see anything obvious from what you posted here. It might be you cloned a buggy version (6.24.99 is not a final release number). Maybe you could try to pull the latest version, or try the master. We build the head of 6-22-00-patches, 6-24-00-patches and master every day without problem with VS 2019 (v16.3.10), and I build the master and run all the tests with the latest version of VS 2019 (v16.9.2). I’ll try 6-24-00-patches and let you know
@bellenot
I just finished building the master with the latest version of VS2019 (v16.9.2) and I unfortunately get the same error… See the attached files. I am a bit lost…
I don’t know what’s going on on your system, but I see plenty of errors of the type:
pwsh.exe -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -noprofile -File "C:\Users\AE265409\vcpkg\vcpkg\scripts\buildsystems\msbuild\applocal.ps1" "C:\Users\AE265409\Desktop\ROOT\build_master\graf3d\eve\G__Eve.dir\Release\G__Eve.lib" "C:\Users\AE265409\vcpkg\vcpkg\scripts\buildsystems\msbuild\..\..\..\installed\x86-windows\bin" "G__Eve.dir\Release\G__Eve.tlog\G__Eve.write.1u.tlog" "G__Eve.dir\Release\vcpkg.applocal.log"
'pwsh.exe' n'est pas reconnu en tant que commande interne
ou externe, un programme ex‚cutable ou un fichier de commandes.
La commande "pwsh.exe -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -noprofile -File "C:\Users\AE265409\vcpkg\vcpkg\scripts\buildsystems\msbuild\applocal.ps1" "C:\Users\AE265409\Desktop\ROOT\build_master\graf3d\eve\G__Eve.dir\Release\G__Eve.lib" "C:\Users\AE265409\vcpkg\vcpkg\scripts\buildsystems\msbuild\..\..\..\installed\x86-windows\bin" "G__Eve.dir\Release\G__Eve.tlog\G__Eve.write.1u.tlog" "G__Eve.dir\Release\vcpkg.applocal.log"" s'est arrˆt‚e avec le code 9009.
So there is definitively something non-conventional with vcpkg. Can you try to build in a clean environment?
From my side I successfully built the 6-24-00-patches branch
Well I guess if you are running out of ideas, I am just going to give up as I wasted a lot of time already trying to build it. This is frustrating because I really wanted to succeed on installing root and I looked forward to use pyROOT now that it was windows-compatible. But I am way over my head here…
Thank you very much for your help (if you still have ideas, I will try them of course ! but otherwise, don’t sweat it…)
Can you try to call C:\Users\AE265409\Desktop\ROOT\buildmaster\bin\thisroot.bat and then start root.exe?
BTW, are you building in your Desktop? That’s weird… I never tried that, it might also be part of the problem…
Root starts but I get an error as soon as I want to draw a histogram.
As for building in my Desktop, that is a (bad ?) habit of mine to have all my utilities on Desktop. But If you believe it might be the source of the problem, I can build in another folder.
So it works. And yes, if fails because the build was not over and libWin32Gdk.dll was not build. And BTW, you cannot execute .vcxproj files
What you can try is to go to the tutorials directory and try to run root -l -b -q hsimple.C
So you successfully executed what was supposed to be done by the build system (i.e. generating hsimple.root). Then I don’t know what else to try since everything seems to work on the command line…
And yes, you started ROOT without splash screen (-l) in batch mode (-b), executed the hsimple.C macro, and then quit (-q)
Well, I figured that and I jumped the gun and went forward with the build since hsimple.root was generated. My eyes started to fill with hope when seeing everything build correctly untill I got to this wall of errors related to GSL functions (line 6550 of the redirected std output):
It looks like your GSL has been build in an incompatible way. I would try to disable the mathmore option and try again. Then you can try to fix the GSL errors
