Windows build¶

Installed Windows 7 Professional 64 bit on Mac Boot Camp partition and then created a Parallels virtual machine which runs on this partition
Installed on Windows:

• Qt (Qt 5.0.2 libraries for MinGW & Qt Creator 2.7.0); MinGW is part of this installer
• Atlassian SourceTree (v0.9.2.3)
• Installed gnuwin32 from sourceforge
• Installed gsl from http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages.html
• Downloaded fftw3 library from http://www.fftw.org/install/windows.html and moved fftw3.h to new include folder and libfftw3-3.dll to new lib folder (for compatibility with unix/mac paths in shared.pri)
• Downloaded boost_1_53_0 from sourceforge
• Build Boost:
  0) Adapt <BOOSTDIR>\tools\build\v2\tools\python.jam according to SO:

On IRC, we have found the following procedure fixes the problem:

Open tools/build/v2/tools/python.jam
There, locate the following code:

if [ version.check-jam-version 3 1 17 ] || ( [ os.name ] != NT ) {

1. Prior to version 3.1.17 Boost Jam's SHELL command did not support
2. quoted commands correctly on Windows. This means that on that
3. platform we do not support using a Python command interpreter
4. executable whose path contains a space character.
   python-cmd = \"$(python-cmd)\" ;
   }
   Remove that code block completely.

1) -> cd <BOOSTDIR>\tools\build\v2\engine
2) -> build.bat mingw
3) copy resulting bjam.exe into <BOOSTDIR>
4) -> cd <BOOSTDIR>
5) -> bjam - -sZLIB_SOURCE="C:\zlib-1.2.8" toolset=gcc address-model=32 variant=release link=static,shared threading=single,multi install
6) renamed all boost libraries to conform with *nix libnames (using powershell)
-Moved needed dlls to windlls folder which is included in path
-Installed Eigen-3.1.3 library (headers only)
-Installed Root:
1) -> git clone http://root.cern.ch/git/root.git
2) installed and run cmake (CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="c:\root" GSL_DIR="c:\Program Files (x86)\GnuWin32" MSVC_VERSION=1600)
3) run mingw32-make in root build directory

From Gennady (will cleanup it later):¶

• after installation of Qt add mingw into the PATH

C:\Qt\Tools\mingw48_32\bin;C:\Qt\Tools\mingw48_32\lib;C:\Qt\5.1.0\mingw48_32\bin;C:\Qt\Tools\QtCreator\bin

• about git

if you install git from http://msysgit.github.io/, it will come with GitBash utility which is nice replacement for çmd shell program

• about boost installation
  http://andres.jaimes.net/718/how-to-install-the-c-boost-libraries-on-windows/