Take the 2-minute tour ×  Can I install Cern's ROOT on win32
without MSVS but with mingw32? I want to develop some C/C++
programs, which will use ROOT.  share|improve this question add
comment  1 Answer  up vote 0 down vote accepted  As far as I
know, compiling with mingw32 is currently not supported. I guess
it would technically be possible, as mingw32 is based on gcc,
but it would be a lot of work.  The best way seems to be to use
MSVC++ (even the free express version will do). ROOT builder is
a nice tool that uses mingw32 (but the MS compiler) and builds
ROOT for you, without the need for the command line.  Another
option would be to use cygwin, but that is also unsupported, and
it's probably slower, because it introduces a layer of
indirection to convert posix calls to windows.  Here are some
links to further information:    share|improve this answer add
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