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You can get the Java interface from pythiaJava.tar.gz.
Put it somewhere and extract with tar -xvf <filename.tar.gz> This will create a directory evtgen that contains the files.
Please also make sure that you have a proper version of a Java compiler with the JNI interface and that the environment variable $JDK_ROOT points to it.
Make sure the LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable contains the current directory. (.)
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The distribution contains the file evtgenpythiaisajet/pythia6228pythia6xxx.f. You can replace that file with your favourite version 6.x of Pythia.
Build the program
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Newer versions of gcc come with the gfortran library. You can build the program with
g++ -shared -I$JDK_ROOT/include -I$JDK_ROOT/include/linux *.cpp *.f -lgfortran -o ../libpythiaevtgen.so
optimization
In tests, we found that the options -O2 -march=nocona lead to significant performance improvements.
Running the program
First drop into a bash shell (if you are not already, which would be a shame). Then source setup.sh.
Now you can just run the program with java EvtGen 10 to generate 10 files.
The program is going to read the files pythia.cmd and pythia.cards. The outputfile is events.stdhep. If you want it to use a different generator, run the command like this. java EvtGen 10 <name of lib> where <name of lib is resolved to the name lib<name of lib>evtgen.so.