Building root using Cygwin on Windows

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Has anybody successfully built root using Cygwin on Windows (using X11)? I haven’t had any luck at all.
Charles

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Which version of ROOT? The cvs head should build correctly. What errors do you get during the build?

– Fons

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Hi Charles,

[quote]> I get the following error:

Generating dictionary thread/src/G__Thread.cxx…
[…]
Error: rootcint: failed to open //tmp/tbd4.2_rootcint in main
make: *** [thread/src/G__Thread.cxx] Error 1
[/quote]

from ChangeLog.txt:

2003-08-02 07:45 brun Rene.Brun@cern.ch

* utils/src/rootcint.cxx:
From Philippe
Surprisingly, cygwin's fopen can not code with '//tmp' but needs '/tmp'.
This fixes the problem.

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So you’ll have to move to a version later than from Aug 2nd, 2003… cygwin handles //dir differently than /dir.

[quote]p.s. You mention that I can download the binaries from the root website. The only binaries I see are from using VC++ and not gcc. Are there gcc binaries (that use X11) available?
[/quote]

See e.g.
http://root.cern.ch/root/Version310.html
which links to ftp://root.cern.ch/root/root_v3.10.00.win32gcc.tar.gz

Axel.

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I dont know if that can help but I have sumarised on the following web page what I did to build my own version of root using cygwin on windows. For me it worked.

couet.home.cern.ch/couet/root/ht01.html

Cheers, Olivier

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Hi Olivier,

The instructions on your page are for win32, not for win32gcc (i.e. root with X11 on windows, the version Charles was talking about). Look at http://root.axel-naumann.de/ for win32gcc.

Axel.