This is a short guide on how to get root on your computer if you have windows 10. It can be cumbersome to have to open a virtual machine to run root or to dual boot your computer with linux
to be able to do this one thing. I used a Windows subsystem for linux to run root on it and it works great for me. The steps are listed as following:

• Getting a Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)
  • Follow these steps to get a WSL
    
    • Settings -> Updates & security -> developers -> enable developer mode 
    • Then go to Control panel -> Programs -> Turn windows features on or off -> enable windows subsystem for linux (WSL)

    • From here windows will install some files and make sure to restart the computer 

    • Once that has been done, go to the microsoft store to get Ubuntu

      • Download it and Install it

      • It should download like an application 

    • After downloading it, launch the application by clicking on the download file or finding it in your applications. 

      • This should give you an Ubuntu terminal

    • You'll need install and run an X-Windows server on windows for the GUI environment that you'll need and you can get it sourceforge.net/projects/xming/files/Xming/6.9.0.31/Xming-6-9-0-31-setup.exe/download
    • It should automatically start downloading and just run the .exe to install it.
    • Then it'll be good to update the distribution you downloaded by typing the following commands into the Ubuntu terminal
      • sudo apt update
      • sudo apt upgrade 
      • IMPORTANT
        • Doing this might cause an error when you try to ssh into the RCF but the fix to this is simple. Just re-upload your public key with the attached fingerprint for it.
    • Then type the following into the Ubuntu terminal so Xming knows where to display the window when you call it
      • export DISPLAY="localhost:0"

    • Then to append the correct display to the .bashrc file, run the following command in the Ubuntu terminal

      • echo 'export DISPLAY="localhost:0"' >> ~/.bashrc 

        • where the tilde (~) is the home directory for the current user 

• Downloading ROOT 
  • It is important you download the same version of root as you have visual studio 
    • To check what version you have: control panel -> programs -> programs and features 
    • Once there, check for "Microsoft visual C++ 20**" and that'll be the version you have 
      • The asterisks are just numbers (2018,2019,2020)
    • Of course, you can download a newer version if you want 
    • Here is the link for root: root.cern.ch/downloading-root
    • What I recommend - to simplify a lot of things - is to download the .exe file. If you do that, it will download itself when you click on the download (keep track of where it downloads) and do its thing.

• Compiling ROOT locally 
  • Before you install ROOT, make sure you have the pre-requisites for it by going to the following website root.cern.ch/build-prerequisites . Towards the middle of the page you'll see all the commands to run to install what you need 
  • To build ROOT 6.14.02 under UBUNTU 18.04
    •  Run the following commands in your new WSL terminal
    • sudo apt-get install cmake
    • sudo apt-get install git dpkg-dev cmake g++ binutils libx11-dev libxpm-dev libxft-dev libxext-dev
    • Then some extra stuff if you were to need it
      • sudo apt-get install gfortran libssl-dev libpcre3-dev libglu1-mesa-dev libglew-dev libftgl-dev libmysqlclient-dev libfftw3-dev graphviz-dev libavahi-compat-libdnssd-dev libldap2-dev python-dev libxm12-dev limkrb15-dev libsql-dev libqt4-dev libtbb-dev
        
    • Then run these commands
      • wget https://root.cern.ch/download/root_v6.14.02.source.tar.gz
        • If wget doesn't work, just copy the link to your webbrowser and it'll begin downloading
      • tar -xzvf root_v6.14.02.source.tar.gz
      • mkdir buildir
      • cd buildir
      • cmake ../root-6.14.02
      • cmake --build .
    • Once all of that is done, run these commands
    • source ~/builddir/bin/thisroot.sh
    • echo 'source ~/builddir/bin/thisroot.sh' >> ~/.bashrc
    • root
    • Then you should see the root splash screen pop up
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