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It presumes nothing except a working Windows machine (2000, XP) with internet access. Therefore, you may only need to use parts of this installation guide if you have some of the external dependencies already installed.
Preliminaries
Cygwin
- Download www.cygwin.com/setup.exe from www.cygwin.com.
- Double-click on it and click Next.
- Select Install from Internet and click Next.
- Enter your preferred Root Directory and click Next.
- Enter your preferred Local Package Directory, which can be the same as the Root Directory, and then click Next.
- Select Direct Connection, if it is not already, click Next.
- Select a site from the Available Download Sites. Servers inside your country will probably be fastest. I use ftp://ftp.sunsite.utk.edu.
- Click Next.
- In the Cygwin Setup - Select Packages window, you need to make sure that the following tools are selected by clicking in the corresponding box under the New column until you see a version number.
- Required packages.
- Devel -> cvs
- Devel -> gcc-core
- Devel -> gcc-g++
- Devel -> make
- Base -> gzip
- Base -> tar
- Tool for downloading package tarballs and zip files.
- Web -> wget
- Required packages.
- Click Next after you have selected the packages.
- Cygwin will now automatically download and install all the selected packages. It might take awhile, so now is the time to go get some coffee.
- If desired, select Create icon on Desktop or Add icon to Start Menu, and click Finish.
Testing the Cygwin Command Line Tools
- Select Start Menu -> Cygwin -> Cygwin Bash Shell
- Check that the following commands do not result in a command not found message.
- cvs
- gcc
- g++
- tar
- wget
- make
- If a command was not found, rerun the Cygwin setup to select the missing package, making sure to select Keep on the Cygwin Setup - Select Packages screen so that all the packages are not reinstalled.
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Throughout this guide, I assume you are using bash or at least another sh compatible shell. Please don't try to use csh or something equally hideous. |
Work Area
We will install all packages into a common work area.
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Throughout the guide, any time a line is added to setup.sh, it is presumed that you also set this up in the current environment. Probably the easiest way to do this is adding to the script first and then (re)sourcing it. |
Java
Java is required for installing LCIO.
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The above JAVA_HOME directory is an example only. You need to replace it with the correct path to your JDK. |
Proceed!
You are now ready to start the installation.
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Leave your Cygwin window open, as you will be using it throughout the installation. This will also allow the environment to be built-up incrementally as the installation proceeds. |
Package Installations
CLHEP
There are installation instructions for version 1.9 and up http://wwwasd.web.cern.ch/wwwasd/lhc++/clhep/INSTALLATION/newCLHEP-install.html.
But you should not need them to setup the package.
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Now that the CLHEP dependency is satisfied, you should be able to install Geant4.
Geant4
Geant4 is probably the most difficult application to install of SLIC's dependencies, because there are a lot of options. I will describe a minimal installation procedure with support for built-in UI and visualization. drivers You can always update the libraries later if you decide to change these settings.
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The default Geant4 library settings for WIN32 are global and static. You may choose other settings, but this could require changes in installation settings "down the line" that I may not mention. |
LCPhys
- Go back to the work dir.
No Format cd $sim_wrk
- Checkout the physics list from CVS.
No Format cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.freehep.org:/cvs/lcd checkout LCPhys
- Assuming that the environment from the Geant4 installation is still in place, you can build this like any other physics list.
No Format cd LCPhys make
- Set the LCPhys variable in setup.sh.
No Format LCPHYS_BASE=$sim_wrk/LCPhys
LCIO
LCIO actually has a very nice manual http://lcio.desy.de/v01-04/doc/manual_html/manual.html. Thanks, Frank!
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- Go back to the work dir.
No Format cd $sim_wrk
- Checkout LCIO from CVS.
No Format cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.freehep.org:/cvs/lcio checkout lcio
- Add these lines to your setup.sh.
No Format export LCIO=${sim_wrk}/lcio export PATH=$LCIO/tools:$LCIO/bin:$PATH
- Build the libraries using the bundled aid and ant tools.
No Format ant aid cpp
Xerces
- Go back to the work dir, create a subdir for Xerces-C++, and go into it.
No Format cd $sim_wrk mkdir xercesc cd xercesc
- Download the Xerces tarball.
No Format wget http://www.apache.org/dist/xml/xerces-c/xerces-c-src_2_6_0.tar.gz
- Unzip the tarball.
No Format tar -zxvf xerces-c-src_2_6_0.tar.gz
- Set the temporary XERCESCROOT in the environment.
No Format export XERCESCROOT=${sim_work}/xerces-c-src_2_6_0
- Go into the Xerces-C++ build area.
No Format cd xerces-c-src_2_6_0/src/xercesc
- Configure the build.
No Format ./runConfigure -pcygwin -cgcc -xg++ \ -minmem -nsocket -tnative -rpthread \ -P `cd ../..; pwd`
- Build and install it.
No Format make make install
- In setup.sh, set XERCESCROOT to the installation area and add the library path.
No Format export XERCESCROOT=${sim_work}/xercesc export PATH=$XERCESCROOT/lib:$PATH
GDML
GDML's CVS is not directly accessible from the command line, but a tarball is available through a WWW interface.
- Download a snapshot of the current CVS head using this link in your browser. http://simu.cvs.cern.ch/cgi-bin/simu.cgi/simu/GDML2/GDML2.tar.gz?tarball=1
- Save the tarball to sim_wrk.
- Unzip the tarball.
No Format tar -zxvf GDML2.tar.gz
- Change into the CPPGDML directory.
No Format cd GDML2/CPPGDML
- Set GDML_BASE in setup.sh.
No Format export GDML_BASE=${sim_work}/GDML2/CPPGDML export PLATFORM=cygwin_g++
- Configure the build.
No Format ./configure --enable-geant4-vis --enable-geant4-ui --with-geant4-libtype=granular \ --with-platform=cygwin_g++
- Build it.
No Format make
LCDD
- Go to the work dir and checkout LCDD.
No Format cd ${sim_work} cvs -d CVSROOT=:pserver:anonymous@cvs.freehep.org:/cvs/lcd checkout lcdd
- Go into the LCDD dir.
No Format cd lcdd
- Configure the build.
No Format ./configure
- Build the library.
No Format make
- Set the LCDD_BASE variable in setup.sh.
No Format export LCDD_BASE=${sim_work}/lcdd
SLIC
- Go to the work dir and checkout SLIC.
No Format cd ${sim_work} cvs -d CVSROOT=:pserver:anonymous@cvs.freehep.org:/cvs/lcd checkout slic
- Go into the SLIC dir.
No Format cd slic
- Set the SLIC_BASE variable in setup.sh.
No Format export SLIC_BASE=${sim_work}/slic
- Configure the build.
No Format ./configure
- Build the binary.
No Format make all
If the test completes successful, you should see SLIC's usage statement as it runs and then exits.
Final Setup Script
The final setup.sh should look like this.
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#!/bin/sh # 1 work area export sim_work=/cygdrive/c/work/nsim # 2 java export JAVA_HOME=/cygdrive/c/Java/jdk1.5.0_01 export JDK_HOME=${JAVA_HOME} # 3 clhep installation area export CLHEP_BASE_DIR=${sim_work}/clhep # 4 geant4 export G4INSTALL=${sim_work}/geant4/geant4.7.0.p01 export G4SYSTEM=WIN32-g++ #export OGLHOME=/usr/X11R6 #export OGLHOME=/usr #export G4VIS_BUILD_OPENGLX_DRIVER=1 #export G4VIS_USE_OPENGLX=1 # 5 LCPhys export LCPHYS_BASE=${sim_work}/LCPhys # 6 LCIO export LCIO=${sim_work}/lcio export PATH=$LCIO/tools:$LCIO/bin:$PATH # 7 Xerces-C++ installation area export XERCESCROOT=${sim_work}/xercesc export PATH=$XERCESCROOT/lib:$PATH # 8 GDML export GDML_BASE=${sim_work}/GDML2/CPPGDML export PLATFORM=cygwin_g++ # 9 LCDD export LCDD_BASE=${sim_work}/lcdd # 10 SLIC export SLIC_BASE=${sim_work}/slic |
Additional Resources
SLIC Homepage - SLIC
Running SLIC at SLAC - Instructions for Running the SLIC package at SLAC