Difference between Root dict and LCG reflex dict

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During a compilation (scram) I see:

Building Root dict from header file src/Analysis/src/AnalysisLinkDef.h 
Building LCG reflex dict from header file src/Analysis/src/classes.h

What is the difference between Root dict and LCG reflex dict. What does LCG stand for?

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Hello,

You are using scram to build some version of CMSSW?

In this forum you’ll find help for questions about ROOT itself, but I’ll try to answer: I guess the first dictionary is related to ROOT (since CMSSW provides ROOT). LCG stands for LHC Computing Grid, but don’t know what’s in that dictionary.

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I am building my project on top of CMSSW in a scram based area.

By studying genreflex --help I conclude that LCG dict is in the realm of ROOT.

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I see, perhaps CMSSW support will be able to tell you more about those dictionaries?

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The name are essentially historical at this point. “root dict” indicates that the input/configuration of the dictionary generation step was done via a LinkDef file (using #pragma link ... syntax) while “LCG reflex dict” indicates that the input/configuration was done via a selection.xml file (in XML format).

There used to be a distinct product named “Reflex” that was part of one of the LCG software suite.

The ends result of both calls is similar and is a generate C++ source file that is used to load information (in particular I/O related) on the content of the corresponding library (Interacting with Shared Libraries: rootcling | ROOT a Data analysis Framework)

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