Compilation of root with PostgreSQL (Windows 8.1 64-bit)

ROOT
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Hi.
I’m new at working with root and also at working on Windows. I got instructions to compile root with PostgreSQL using VS 2010. I downloaded:

Microsoft Visual c++ 2010 express
cmake 3.1.1
PostgreSQL 9.3
root_v5.34.23 source

Fisrt, I should run this in the command prompt:

cmake -G "Visual Studio 10" -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=c:\root -DPOSTGRESQL_INCLUDE_DIR="C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\9.3\include" -DPOSTGRESQL_LIBRARIES="C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\9.3\lib\libpq.lib" ..\root

I got an error:

[quote]CMake Error: The source directory “C:/Install/root” does not appear to contain C
MakeLists.txt.
[/quote]

I found different CMakeLists.txt files in root folder but they’re all different and I have no idea how CmakeLists.txt for my case should look like. I tried to find answer on different forums, but I’m new at this and I didn’t find any of the solution useful.

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Hi,

You must specify where the source directory of ROOT is (e.g. where you extracted the root source tar file)
And apparently, it is not in C:/Install/
Are you sure you took the source tar file of ROOT?

Cheers, Bertrand.

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Hi,
Yes, I extracted root to C:\Install\ and I only have folders build and root in it. I took the source file - root_v5.34.25.win32.vc10.tar.gz . I got instructions from colleague that used same procedure and it worked, but on 32-bit Windows. This is the whole procedure:

[code]cmake -G “Visual Studio 10” -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=c:\root -DPOSTGRESQL_INCLUDE_DIR=“C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\9.3\include” -DPOSTGRESQL_LIBRARIES=“C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\9.3\lib\libpq.lib” …\root

#MSBuild.exe ROOT.sln /t:Clean;Build;Install /p:Configuration=Release
cmake --build . --target install --config Release
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=c:\root -P cmake_install.cmake
[/code]

I added PostgreSQL to path too, now I have environment variables, path: [quote]C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\8.1\bin\x64;C:\Program Files (x86)\CMake\bin;C:\Install\root\bin;C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\9.3\lib;C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\9.3\bin;C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\bin[/quote]

Cheers, Manca

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Hi Manca,

[quote=“mphy”]I took the source file - root_v5.34.25.win32.vc10.tar.gz[/quote]Well, root_v5.34.25.win32.vc10.tar.gz [color=#FF0000]IS NOT[/color] the source code! The source is root_v5.34.25.source.tar.gz

Cheers, Bertrand.

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Oh, I see, thanks. I was told to be sure to have ROOT version that is compatible with VS 10 and then I obviously made a mistake. It gets through now, but I have some other errors. I’ll try to figure it out on my own first. Thanks for help.

Cheers, M