Building ROOT on Windows with Visual Studio 2008 (VC9)

Requirements

• Visual Studio 2009 - the professional distribution was used in this example
• Python installation (currently 2.5.1 as of March 2008)
  • While ROOT binaries are not distributed with this version of Python, we have doubled-checked that this is ok:
    http://root.cern.ch/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=4359

Optional

• FFTW (currently 3.1.2 available from http://www.fftw.org/install/windows.html)
• libxml2.6.15.win32 available from Planet Mirror
• gccxml available from http://www.gccxml.org/HTML/Index.html

 Set Up

From the DOS prompt:

set PATH=
set LIB=
set INCLUDE=
and ran C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\vsvarsall.bat
Then
set ROOTSYS=C:\heather\root-v5.20-gl1\root
set PYTHONDIR=C:\Python25
set PYTHONPATH=%ROOTSYS%\bin
set XMLDIR=C:\heather\root-v5.20-gl1\libxml2-2.6.15.win32
set ROOTBUILD=opt
set LIB=C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\Lib;%LIB%;%ROOTSYS%\lib
set PATH=C:\WINNT\system32;C:\WINNT;C:\WINNT\System32\Wbem;C:\Python25;%ROOTSYS%\bin;C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\bin;%PATH%;%ROOTSYS%\lib
set INCLUDE=C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\Include;include;%INCLUDE%

Start cygwin via the command line:  bash --login -i
At the cygwin prompt, changed directories to the %ROOTSYS% dir

Configure

Before calling make, we must run configure.  It is often helpful to consider the configuration utilized in the ROOT distribution for the various platforms.

At this time, we at least require:  xrootd, minuit2, python

Start cygwin via the command line:  bash --login -i
At the cygwin prompt, changed directories to the %ROOTSYS% dir and then ran configure:

./configure win32 --enable-roofit --enable-minuit2 --enable-table --enable-python --disable-odbc --enable-gdml --enable-unuran --enable-xrootd --enable-reflex --enable-cintex --with-fftw3-incdir=C:/heather/root5.18b/fftw-3.1.2-dll --with-fftw3-libdir=C:/heather/root5.18b/fftw-3.1.2-dll --with-gccxml=C:/heather/root5.18b/gcc_xml --with-xml-incdir=C:/heather/root5.18b/libxml2-2.6.15.win32/include --with-xml-libdir=C:/heather/root5.18b/libxml2-2.6.15.win32/lib --with-python-libdir=C:/Python25/libs --with-python-incdir=C:/Python25/include --enable-mathmore --enable-mathcore --with-gsl-incdir=C:/heather/root5.18b/GSL/include --with-gsl-libdir=C:/heather/root5.18b/GSL/lib

http://root.cern.ch/cgi-bin/print_hit_bold.pl/root/roottalk/roottalk07/0343.html?mathmorevisual#first_hit

Run make

make
make cintdlls  (which seems to do nothing)
make map (also seems to do nothing)
make install