Installation Guide for Beginners on Windows

A Novice’s Installation Experience on Windows.

While collaborating with my student on a Windows system, which I am not accustomed to, we successfully installed the latest version (6.22.06) following the instructions provided in:
Installing ROOT - ROOT

However, we encountered a delay in realizing that additional components needed to be installed in Visual Studio (I had assumed that the development tools were included with CMake).

I suggest incorporating the following instructions into the installation page or Dependencies - ROOT 2:
(In Visual Studio, navigate to the Tools menu => Get Tools and Features => Install the Desktop Development With C++ workload)
[found on msbuild - vcvarsall.bat missing after installing Visual Studio 2019 - Stack Overflow]

Best regards,
Vincent.

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ROOT Version: root6
Platform: Windows
Compiler: No idea…

Thanks fir the suggestion! @bellenot what do you think?

Hi, thanks, I’ll add the relevant information in the doc.

@zhilen111 looking at Dependencies - ROOT I see:

ROOT 6

  • CMake (version >= 16.3)
  • Microsoft Visual C++ (ROOT6 requires at least Visual Studio 2019 version 16.1). The Community version is free, fully-featured for students, open-source contributors, and individuals. The Desktop Development With C++ workload is also needed. You can install it directly from the Visual Studio Installer

I.e. It clearly says: The Desktop Development With C++ workload is also needed. You can install it directly from the Visual Studio Installer
Is that enough, or should we explain the different ways to install it?

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