SciRooPlot

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Advanced installation instructions

SciRooPlot requires ROOT 6.36.04 or newer. In case your package manager does not provide it, you can build ROOT from source.

Building ROOT from source:

git clone --branch v6-40-04 --depth 1 https://github.com/root-project/root.git root_src
cmake -S root_src -B root_build -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$HOME/root
cmake --build root_build --parallel
cmake --install root_build
source $HOME/root/bin/thisroot.sh

Sourcing thisroot.sh (e.g. in your .bashrc or .zshrc) is enough for SciRooPlot to find this ROOT installation. Alternatively, you can pass its location directly to SciRooPlot via -DROOT_DIR=$HOME/root/cmake.

The C++ standard does not need to be chosen: SciRooPlot and your plotting projects are compiled with the C++ standard ROOT was built with (C++17 or newer).

fmt and pybind11:

fmt and pybind11 are fetched automatically in case they are not installed or too old. To use the fetched fmt even though a suitable version is installed, pass -DCMAKE_DISABLE_FIND_PACKAGE_fmt=ON.