Hi Dave, We will add this option in the coming release, hoping that there are no side-effects. Rene Brun On Sat, 23 Dec 2000, Dave Casper wrote: > > Hi, > > Each time I try to build Root from the sources, I seem to discover various > tweaks necessary to the recommended procedure. The following refers to > v3.0, retrieved from the repository. > > First, I wonder if the compiler option "-GR" could be added to the default > options for c++ files on Windows. This enables c++ real-time type > information. Without this flag, doing a dynamic_cast on a pointer to any > Root class crashes at runtime. IMO this should be the default without > specifying it (for the VC++ compiler) but since it isn't, it would be > convenient to add it to the default flags in Root. Actually this is the > main reason I can't use the binary distribution (since it isn't built with > this option). > > Second, my big compile dies on the errors: > > base/src/TROOT.cxx(1336) : error C2146: syntax error : missing ';' before > identi > fier 'ROOTMACROPATH' > base/src/TROOT.cxx(1336) : error C2065: 'ROOTMACROPATH' : undeclared > identifier > make: *** [base/src/TROOT.o] Error 2 > > I'm not 100% sure what ROOTMACROPATH is supposed to be, or how it is > supposed to get set. It isn't mentioned in the recipe for building the > package. > > Thanks for any advice, > > Dave > dcasper@uci.edu >
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