Compiling with MSVC

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I would like to be using CINT n a Windows app - compiling with MSVC Express 2008.
One of the sticky topics in the CINT forum claims to have “vc2008 solution included” but the link given is broken :frowning:

I have tried to use the pre-compiled binary package, but the app won’t run because some required DLL is not available. None of the requested DLLs that I can locate on my system seem to allow the app to run.
So it looks like I need to compile the code myself, but here I have run into another roadblock.

After downloading & extracting cint-5.16.19-source.tar.gz, the readme.txt file mentions building under Windows
b) Using Visual C++ 4.0, 5.0, 6.0 (See b’ for VC++ 7.0)
and speaks of various directories
c:\cint> cd c:\cint\platform\visual : VC++4.0/5.0/6.0
OR
c:\cint> cd c:\cint\platform\visualCpp6 : VC++6.0
OR
c:\cint> cd c:\cint\platform\visualCpp7 : VC++7.0

which I can’t find in the extracted source directory tree.

Even browsing the SVN repository at root.cern.ch/svn/root/trunk/cint
does not show any such ‘platform’ directory.

Any help or information will be greatly appreciated.

TIA

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Hi,

you need cygwin to run

$ tar xfz cint-5.16.19-source.tar.gz
$ cd cint-5.16.19
$ ./configure
$ gmake

as stated at root.cern.ch/cint

Cheers, Axel.

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[quote=“Axel”]Hi,

you need cygwin to run[/quote]

Thank you, Axel, but that is what I am trying to avoid and both the readme and the sticky topic led me to believe I could - but it looks like that is not so :frowning:

In which case, I will have to reconsider my options …