ROOT Builder

Building the ROOT analysis tools on Windows can be a bit painful: normally you have to install cygwin (huge!), and then you use the command line. This is too bad because Windows has a great development environment along with a good integrated debugger. This tool attempts to bridge the two build worlds on Windows:

• A MSVC IDE ROOT project is created, including all the source code for the version of ROOT you are building.
• You can build ROOT in debug mode or perhaps release mode with debug information, or even just plane release mode.
• Clicking "build" will build the project using MinGW's make tools and sh.
• You can set break points in the source file in the same way that you would usually. Clicking "debug" will start up ROOT and correctly stop at a break point.
• VS2003, VS2005, and VS2008 are all supported. But please read the notes, especially if you are using 2003!

This tool is very simplistic... :-)

• Download
• Installation
• Instructions
• FAQ Questions:
  • Why is this a make project and not a full blown native MSVC project?
  • I have multiple versions of Visual Studio installed. Do I need to worry?
  • Visual Studio 2003 is old. There are some extra things to worry about. Especially on Vista.
  • I use cvs to extract ROOT. Why doesn't ROOT Builder generate an empty project?