Reading ROOT files with minimal dependencies

[ferhue]

Static: It’s not officially supported I believe. You can force it by hand, but, see:
https://its.cern.ch/jira/browse/ROOT-6446

Static builds of Root in reference to jira ticket ROOT-6446

if time is of the essence, I guess you could fallback on using a dedicated serialization library (that is easier to compile statically and more modular than statically compiling the whole ROOT project). a couple of ideas: protocol buffers: https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/ HDF5: https://support.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/ Arrow+Parquet: https://arrow.apache.org/, https://parquet.apache.org/ from python (and Go), ingesting any of these formats is rather straightforward. I suppose con…

@amadio and @hahnjo might give you better hints.

See also:

WIP: ROOT-6446 Changes to allow building (almost) static ROOT