+These instructions allow us to build and install ROOT on Windows 10. But an old version of ROOT and Visual Studio are used.
- Downloading the free version of Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 update 5 (release 12.0) from the official website: (https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/fr/vs/older-downloads/). It is possible that you need to create an account in order to download this old package.
- Keeping the default folder:
C:\Programmes (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0
- Selecting the development package for C++ usage.
- Downloading and installing the package from the website (https://www.doxygen.nl/index.html)
- Downloading and installing the package from the website (https://github.com/)
- Keeping all the default settings.
- Downloading the last release of ROOT 5 (v5.34.38): https://root.cern/download/root_v5.34.38.win32.vc12.exe
- Executing the file and installing ROOT in a folder containing no space in the name. Advised folder:
C:\ROOT