The last working version of "cint" C/C++ Interpreter, pulled from within "root-5.34.00-patches"

To compile, supply the path to "libreadline.a", if it is not "/usr/(local)/lib/libreadline.a". For example on the Raspberry Pi:

./configure --readlinelib=/usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libreadline.a

When you run make you will get 4 errors, after cint itself has been built, while compiling with makecint. Those errors are contained within fixme.txt, you are welcome to submit patches.

This version was tested with GCC-4.9 on Raspbian Jessie (oldstable) on a RPi2, on PipaOS 5. Its was the only version that would build without serious errors. It is the last tag vesrion available from the root project, however other patches may be found before the move to v6.0.0, which uses cling.

The newer v6.0.8, although last updated in 2015, does not build with G_NEWSTDHEADERS, and I could not decipher the header death that is rank without that define. That version also looks to only have been tested on Windows, possibly only with Visual C/C++ (not GCC on CygWin), and no longer contains a configure script. The new include structure will not support the older configure script.

The old v5.16.19 will build, also with GCC-6.1.0, but it fails seriously when building the core element gcc3stream and a few other components (with the same error).This error was later fixed but no one has updated the CERN CINT page since then (Oct 2007), and I was unable to find the patch commit.

This version will not build with GCC-6.1.0, exiting with:

tool/rmkdepend/rmkdepend: /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.21' not found (required by tool/rmkdepend/rmkdepend)

Again, patches are welcome, but please maintain GCC-4.9 ability to compile.

Jan 2018 paulwratt@github