Current Status of ROOT for Windows (7)

[spencer]

Hi,

What is the current status of ROOT for Windows 7? There is quite a bit on this forum on ROOT for windows, but most of it is rather old. google searches for ROOT on windows also find some hits, but it is hard to tell what is current and what isn’t.

I had posted some questions to a previous discussion topic:

Running precompiled ROOT 6 with cygwin (setup problem)

Hi, I have a new Windows 7 computer, and am trying to figure out a way to install ROOT, preferably under Cygwin. I downloaded and am running Cygwin64; if the problems would go away, I could also try cywin32. I tried the following: downloading root_v6.04.14.source.tar.gz and untarring it. I then tried to compile it in 64 bits with ./configure win64gcc. This failed with an error message: Checking for linker (LD)… no LD compile $(ROOT_SRCDIR)/build/unix/wingcc_ld.sh found I also tried ru…

but didn’t get any response. I would be happy to install an older version of ROOT if that would be easier, but it is hard to figure out what is current and what isn’t.

Thanks.

Spencer Klein
LBNL

[pcanal]

Hi Spencer,

ROOT v6 is not yet supported on Windows. The current version of Windows is v5.34/34.

Cheers,
Philippe.