Missing pyROOT files in v5.34.03 Windows vc9 distribution

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Hi,

Fermi Space Telescope is looking to upgrade to ROOT v5.34.03. The Windows tarball and msi distributions (both release and debug) seem to be missing ROOT.py. I do see PyCintex.py in the bin directory. Is pyRoot really gone missing or am I looking in the wrong place? I was able to do a build from source and I do see ROOT.py was produced.

Thanks,
Heather

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Hi Heather,

You’re right, apparently something went wrong win vc9 builds (vc10 are fine…). I’ll check, rebuild them asap and I’ll let you know when the binaries are updated.

Cheers, Bertrand.

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Hi Heather,

FYI, the VC9 version of root v5.43.03 has just been rebuilt and uploaded on the ftp server. Sorry for the delay (the VM died) and for the trouble.

Cheers, Bertrand.

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Thank you, Bertrand. I downloaded both the optimized and debug tarballs. The optimized build, does have the ROOT.py file, however the debug one still seems to have it missing? I can see that the timestamps on the files have been updated:
ftp://root.cern.ch/root/
So I think I am truly downloading the updated files. Is it possible there is still a problem with the debug tarball?

Thanks,
Heather

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Hi Heather,

The debug versions never contain PyROOT, since the debug version of the Python libraries would be required as well (we cannot mix debug and release runtime libraries on Windows).

Cheers, Bertrand.

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Hi Bertrand,
Ok -thanks!
Take care,
Heather

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Hi Heather,
You’re very welcome! :slight_smile:
Cheers, Bertrand.

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Hi,

Fermi Space Telescope is looking to upgrade to ROOT v5.34.07 on the Mac. I grabbed the binaries for
Mac OS X 10.6 ia32 with gcc 4.2.1, version 5.34.07, and the pyROOT files seem to be missing, except for PyCintex.py. There was a similar issue with the Windows binaries last fall. Am I just not looking closely enough?

Thanks,
Heather

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Oops Never mind - I realize 32 bit support of python was dropped at CERN. I’ll build from source.

[quote]Hi Heather,

Please download the 64bit version: ftp://root.cern.ch/root/root_v5.34.03.m … 4.2.tar.gz
Since the default architecture on MacOS X is 64 bit, the support for 32bit version has been dropped at CERN, that’s the reason why we don’t have Python in it (we don’t have the 32bit Python libraries anymore on Mac OS)

And note that it is fairly easy to build ROOT from source on Mac OS, in case you would need something which is not in the pre-built binaries

Cheers, Bertrand.[/quote]