Root 6.18.04 Startup Problem

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ROOT Version: 6.18.04
Platform: Windows 10 -x64
Compiler: Visual Studio 2019

After I installed visual Studio 2019 and ROOT, I run root on terminal and received this error:

C:\Users\user>root
In file included from input_line_3:39:
In file included from C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.24.28314\include\cassert:9:
In file included from C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\Include\10.0.18362.0\ucrt\assert.h:12:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\Include\10.0.18362.0\ucrt\corecrt.h:142:12: error: redefinition of '_CrtEnableIf<true, _Ty>'
    struct _CrtEnableIf<true, _Ty>
           ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\Include\10.0.17763.0\ucrt\corecrt.h:142:12: note: previous definition is here
    struct _CrtEnableIf<true, _Ty>
           ^
In file included from input_line_3:39:
In file included from C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.24.28314\include\cassert:9:
In file included from C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\Include\10.0.18362.0\ucrt\assert.h:12:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\Include\10.0.18362.0\ucrt\corecrt.h:517:16: error: redefinition of '__crt_locale_data_public'
typedef struct __crt_locale_data_public
               ^
C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\Include\10.0.17763.0\ucrt\corecrt.h:516:16: note: previous definition is here
typedef struct __crt_locale_data_public
               ^
In file included from input_line_3:39:
In file included from C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.24.28314\include\cassert:9:
In file included from C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\Include\10.0.18362.0\ucrt\assert.h:12:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\Include\10.0.18362.0\ucrt\corecrt.h:524:16: error: redefinition of '__crt_locale_pointers'
typedef struct __crt_locale_pointers
               ^
C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\Include\10.0.17763.0\ucrt\corecrt.h:523:16: note: previous definition is here
typedef struct __crt_locale_pointers
               ^
In file included from input_line_3:39:
In file included from C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.24.28314\include\cassert:9:
In file included from C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\Include\10.0.18362.0\ucrt\assert.h:12:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\Include\10.0.18362.0\ucrt\corecrt.h:532:16: error: redefinition of '_Mbstatet'
typedef struct _Mbstatet
               ^
C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\Include\10.0.17763.0\ucrt\corecrt.h:531:16: note: previous definition is here
typedef struct _Mbstatet
               ^
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is there any way that I can fix this?

Cheers,

Martin

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Hi,

This is a known issue. Try to install the Windows 10 SDK version 10.0.17763.0 (or 10.0.18362.0 - just check which one is missing) with the Visual Studio Installer. If it doesn’t work, you can try to use one of the nightly builds, for example root_v6.19.01.win32.vc16.debug.zip or root_v6.19.01.win32.vc16.zip (or the executables) and if it still doesn’t work, I’m afraid you’ll have to build from source…

Cheers, Bertrand.