Error executing ROOT6 on MacOSX 10.11

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Dear experts,

I’ve got a problem executing root6 when finishing installing it (using git root) on MacOSX 10.11
Here is what I did:

git clone http://root.cern.ch/git/root.git
cd root/
./configure --prefix=/Users/myname/root
make -j3
make install

then when executing:

  dyld: Library not loaded: /Users/myname/root/lib/root/libCore.so
  Referenced from: /Users/myname/root/bin/root.exe
  Reason: image not found

Btw,
export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=/Users/myname/root/lib
didn’t help.

Any solution?
Many thanks.

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Use the CMake build. root.cern.ch/building-root

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Thanks, Mato.
Good to see another solution. However, I don’t have cmake available on my laptop.
Would there be any other workaround? (using the traditional approach for the installation?)
Many thanks.

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Installing CMake in your laptop is only a few clicks away.
The classic configure/make is not actively maintained and will probably be discontinued at some point. New features and new platforms are only being developed within the new CMake based build system.

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Hi,

OTOH configure is known to still work. What’s in /Users/myname/root/lib/ and /Users/myname/root/lib/root/ - what does ls say?

Cheers, Axel.

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[quote=“Axel”]Hi,

OTOH configure is known to still work. What’s in /Users/myname/root/lib/ and /Users/myname/root/lib/root/ - what does ls say?

Cheers, Axel.[/quote]

Hi Axel,

Thanks a lot for the suggestion.
In the end, Mato’s recommended cmake approach did work out. Thanks a lot to Mato!
The /Users/myname/root/lib/ and /Users/myname/root/lib/root/ were erased when I made the switch to cmake. Sorry about that :frowning:
I will let you know if I happen to run the normal make install and had the same problem again in the future :slight_smile:
Thank you all the same!