Run ROOT 6.19.02 on Windows 10

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Compiling ROOT on Windows 10

Hi all, I know you guys are doing progress on supporting ROOT on Windows, so I decided to go ahead and test out and see how this whole experience is I have cloned the master branch and made a rootbuild directory. However, after running cmake ..\root, CMake complains that it cannot find headers related to pthread. My guess is that I don’t have everything installed to build ROOT on my box. So part of my question is then also what are the prerequisites for Windows? (I can’t seem to …

You need CMake (latest version), and then you can:

• Unzip the source tar file in a directory not containing any space
• Open a x86 Native Tools Command Prompt for VS 2019 !!!And NOT a x64 one!!!
• Create a build directory of your choice and cd into it
• Then configure ROOT with: cmake -G "Visual Studio 16 2019" -A Win32 -Thost=x64 -DCMAKE_VERBOSE_MAKEFILE=ON -DCMAKE_CXX_STANDARD=14 [path to source]
• Then, if there was no error, build ROOT: cmake --build . --config Debug

Note that if you need more options, you can open a cmake-gui where you can select the different options before building ROOT (be aware that all of them are not supported on Windows)