Standalone Windows Distribution

If you do not want to build SLIC yourself, there is a Windows executable available for download.

The current version is available as a ZIP file containing a static binary and the required DLLs.

Download the ZIP file using your browser and unzip the contents to C:. You should see the directory C:\slic_win32.

Test out the binary by running it in a console window.

Start -> Run -> cmd.
Press ENTER.
Go to the SLIC directory.
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C:\ cd slic_win32
Execute SLIC from the command line.
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slic

Warning
Close all Cygwin windows before running SLIC, or the packaged Cygwin DLL will not load properly.

The Xerces and Cygwin DLLs are also included so that the package is standalone.

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Cygwin needs to be installed to run SLIC.

Download the SLIC Windows binary from this location.

http://www.lcsim.org/dist/slic/slic-current-WIN32-g%2B%2B-bin.tar.gz

Open a Cygwin window and go to the directory where you saved the tarball.

Untar the file after it is saved to your computer.

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tar -zxvf slic-current-WIN32-g++-bin.tar.gz

Now test the binary.

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cd SimDist ./scripts/slic.sh

The slic usage screen should show.

Preliminary Setup for Installation

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Download the Cygwin setup program.
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 and 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.
1. Required packages.
  - Devel -> cvs
  - Devel -> gcc-core
  - Devel -> gcc-g++
  - Devel -> make
  - Base -> gzip
  - Base -> tar
2. If OpenGL visualization is being used, these should also be installed.
  - X11 -> ALL
  - Graphics -> OpenGL
3. Tool for downloading package tarballs and zip files.
  - Web ->
  Tool for downloading package tarballs and zip files.
  - Web -> wget
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.

Tip

title	Cygwin Packages

It may be easier to simply install all Cygwin packages instead of selecting them individually.

If you need additional information on this installation process, Norman Graf has more detailed Cygwin installation instructions.

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Package Installations

CLHEP

CLHEP has installation instructions for version 1.9 and up. But you (http://wwwasd.web.cern.ch/wwwasd/lhc\+\+/clhep/INSTALLATION/newCLHEP-install.html) for version 1.9 and up. But you should not need them to setup the package.

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Return to the work dir, create a Geant4 subdir and go into it.
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cd $sim_work mkdir geant4 cd geant4

Download the Geant4 tarball.

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wget http://geant4.cern.ch/geant4/source/source/geant4.7.1.tar.gz

Unzip it.
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tar -zxvf geant4.7.1.tar.gz
Set the following variables in setup.sh. (You should not need to run Geant4's Configure script.)
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export G4INSTALL=${sim_work}/geant4/geant4.7.1 export G4SYSTEM=WIN32-g++
Go into the Geant4 base dir.
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cd geant4.7.1
Build the libraries, which will be placed at $G4INSTALL/lib/WIN32-g++. (This could take up to a few hours depending on your machine.)
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cd source make
Install the headers into $G4INSTALL/include.
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make includes
If you would like to enable OpenGL visualization, add the following variable definitions.
This assumes you installed the X11 libraries when you set up cygwin.
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export OGLHOME=/usr/X11R6 export G4VIS_BUILD_OPENGLX_DRIVER=1 export G4VIS_USE_OPENGLX=1
Go into the Geant4 base dirBuild the physics list libraries. These will go into $G4INSTALL/lib/plists/WIN32-g++.
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cd geant4../physics_lists/hadronic make

Hopefully, Geant4 has been installed successfully, and you don't have too many more gray hairs.

LCPhys

SLIC requires a special physics list written by Dennis Wright for Linear Collider physics.

7.1
LCPhys requires that a special flag is set in order to use the latest Kaon model. At the end of config/architecture.gmk, insert the following line exactly as it appears below:
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CPPFLAGS += -DG4BERTINI_KAON
Hopefully, this hack will be remedied soon!
Now for another lovely Geant4 hack. In order to successfully compile the HepRep driver, the following line in the file config/sys
Go back to the work dir.
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cd $sim_work

Checkout the physics list from CVS.

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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, and the library should be installed into $G4INSTALL/lib/plists/WIN32-g++.gmk
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cd LCPhys make
Set the LCPhys variable in setup.sh.
CXXFLAGS := -Wall -ansi -pedantic -pipe
should be replaced with
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export LCPHYS_BASE=$sim_work/LCPhys

LCIO

LCIO provides binary output capabilities.

Warning
Installation requires a working Java runtime for ant support.

LCIO has a very nice manual with a whole section on installation. Thanks, Frank!

I will still walk you through the basic procedure.

CXXFLAGS  := -W -Wall -ansi -pedantic -Wno-non-virtual-dtor -Wno-long-long
CXXFLAGS  += -Wwrite-strings -Wpointer-arith -Woverloaded-virtual -pipe

Build the libraries, which will be placed at $G4INSTALL/lib/WIN32-g++. (This could take up to a few hours depending on your machine.)
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cd source make
Install the headers into $G4INSTALL/include.
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make includes
Build the physics list libraries. These will go into $G4INSTALL/lib/plists/WIN32-g++.
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cd ../physics_lists/hadronic make

Hopefully, Geant4 has been installed successfully, and you don't have too many more gray hairs.

LCPhys

SLIC requires a special physics list written by Dennis Wright for Linear Collider physics.

Go back to the work dir.
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cd $sim_work

Checkout the physics list from CVS.

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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, and the library should be installed into $G4INSTALL/lib/plists/WIN32-g++.
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cd LCPhys make
Set the LCPhys variable in setup.sh.
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export LCPHYS_BASE=$sim_work/LCPhys

LCIO

LCIO provides binary output capabilities.

Warning
Installation requires a working Java runtime for ant support.

LCIO has a very nice manual with a whole section on installation. Thanks, Frank!

I will still walk you through the basic procedure.

Go back to the work dir.
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cd $sim_work

Checkout LCIO from CVS.

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cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.freehep.org:/cvs/lcio checkout lcio

Add these lines to your setup.sh.

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export LCIO=${sim_work}/lcio export PATH=$LCIO/tools:$LCIO/bin:$PATH

Build the libraries using the bundled aid and ant tools.
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cd lcio ant aid.generate cpp

Xerces-C++

Go back to the work dir, create a subdir for Xerces-C++, and go into it.
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cd $sim_work mkdir xercesc cd xercesc

Download the Xerces tarball.

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wget http://www.apache.org/dist/xml/xerces-c/xerces-c-src_2_6_0.tar.gz

Unzip the tarball.
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tar -zxvf xerces-c-src_2_6_0.tar.gz
Set XERCESCROOT for the build in your environment, only
Go back to the work dir.
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cd $sim_work

Checkout LCIO from CVS.

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cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.freehep.org:/cvs/lcio checkout lcio

Add these lines to your setup.sh.

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export LCIOXERCESCROOT=${sim_work}/lcio export PATH=$LCIO/tools:$LCIO/bin:$PATH

Build the libraries using the bundled aid and ant tools.
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cd lcio ant aid.generate cpp

Xerces-C++

xercesc/xerces-c-src_2_6_0
Go into the Go back to the work dir, create a subdir for Xerces-C++ , and go into itbuild area.
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cd $sim_work mkdir xercesc cd xerces-c-src_2_6_0/src/xercesc
Download

Configure the Xerces tarballbuild.

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wget http://www.apache.org/dist/xml/xerces-c/xerces-c-src_2_6_0.tar.gz

Unzip the tarball.
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tar -zxvf xerces-c-src_2_6_0.tar.gz

/runConfigure -pcygwin -cgcc -xg++ \
-minmem -nsocket -tnative -rpthread \
-P `cd ../../..; pwd`

Build and install it.
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make make install
In setup.sh, set XERCESCROOT to the installation area and add the DLL location to the PATHSet XERCESCROOT for the build in your environment, only.
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export XERCESCROOT=${sim_work}/xercesc/xerces-c-src_2_6_0
Go into
export PATH=$XERCESCROOT/bin:$PATH

Tip
When rebuilding Xerces-C++, which you will probably not need to do once you get it working, XERCESCROOT needs to be set back to the Xerces-C++

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source area rather than the installation base.

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cd xerces-c-src_2_6_0/src/xercesc

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, which should be C:\sim.
Unzip the tarball.
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tar -zxvf GDML2.tar.gz
Change into the CPPGDML directory.
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cd GDML2/CPPGDML

Set GDML_BASE in setup.sh.

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export GDML_BASE=${sim_work}/GDML2/CPPGDML

Configure the build.
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./configure --enable-shared-libs=no
Build it.
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make

LCDD

Go to the work dir and checkout LCDD.

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cd ${sim_work} cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.freehep.org:/cvs/lcd checkout lcdd

Go into the LCDD dir.
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cd lcdd
Configure the build.
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./configure
Build the library.
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make
Set the LCDD_BASE variable

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./runConfigure -pcygwin -cgcc -xg++ \ -minmem -nsocket -tnative -rpthread \ -P `cd ../../..; pwd`

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make make install

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export XERCESCROOT=${sim_work}/xercesc export PATH=$XERCESCROOT/bin:$PATH

Tip
When rebuilding Xerces-C++, which you will probably not need to do once you get it working, XERCESCROOT needs to be set back to the Xerces-C++ source area rather than the installation base.

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, which should be C:\sim.
Unzip the tarball.
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tar -zxvf GDML2.tar.gz
Change into the CPPGDML directory.
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cd GDML2/CPPGDML

Set GDML_BASE in setup.sh.

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export GDMLLCDD_BASE=${sim_work}/GDML2/CPPGDMLlcdd

Configure the build.
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./configure --enable-shared-libs=no
Build it.
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make

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SLIC

Finally, you are ready to install the simulation "hub" package. After this, you will have a fully-featured Geant4 simulator on your Windows machine.

Go to the work dir and checkout LCDDSLIC.

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cd ${sim_work} cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.freehep.org:/cvs/lcd checkout lcddslic

Go into the LCDD SLIC dir.
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cd lcddslic
Configure the build

Set the SLIC_BASE variable in setup.sh.

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./configure export SLIC_BASE=${sim_work}/slic

Configure the buildBuild the library.
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make./configure
Set the
LCDD_BASE variable in setup.shBuild the binary (note that we currently do not support visualization).
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export LCDDG4VIS_BASE=${sim_work}/lcdd

SLIC

Finally, you are ready to install the simulation "hub" package. After this, you will have a fully-featured Geant4 simulator on your Windows machine.

NONE=1 make all

If the build completes successfully, you should see SLIC's usage statement from the test run.

Running SLIC after Installation

When you want to run later in a Cygwin shell, $XERCESCROOT/bin should be in the PATH, so that Windows can find the DLL at runtime. Since the other applications were linked-in statically, this should be the only setup requirement.

This is the procedure for running SLIC from the Cygwin commandline.

Select Start -> Programs -> Cygwin -> Cygwin Bash Shell.
Add Xerces-C++ bin to the path

Go to the work dir and checkout SLIC.

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cd ${sim_work} cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.freehep.org:/cvs/lcd checkout slic

Go into the SLIC dir.
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cd slic
Set the SLIC_BASE variable in setup.sh.
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export SLIC_BASE=${sim_work}/slic
Configure the build.
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./configure
PATH=/cygdrive/c/sim/xerces/bin:$PATH
Go to the SLIC directoryBuild the binary (note that we currently do not support visualization).
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export G4VIS_NONE=1 make all

If the build completes successfully, you should see SLIC's usage statement from the test run.

Running SLIC after Installation

When you want to run later in a Cygwin shell, $XERCESCROOT/bin should be in the PATH, so that Windows can find the DLL at runtime. Since the other applications were linked-in statically, this should be the only setup requirement.

This is the procedure for running SLIC from the Cygwin commandline.

Select Start -> Programs -> Cygwin -> Cygwin Bash Shell.

Add Xerces-C++ bin to the path.

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export PATH=/cygdrive/c/sim/xerces/bin:$PATH

Go to the SLIC directory.
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cd /cygdrive/c/sim/slic
Run the executable.
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bin/WIN32-g++/slic [options]

cd /cygdrive/c/sim/slic
Run the executable.
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bin/WIN32-g++/slic [options]

If you receive an error message about a missing DLL cygxerces-c26.dll, then make sure that the PATH is setup correctly and Xerces-C++ was properly installed.

Warning

If you encounter difficulties running macros, it may be due to the different DOS and Unix end-of-line definitions. You can convert files using:

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dos2unix mymacro.mac

In order to run with OpenGL visualization, an X-server needs to be running on your machine.

This command will start the Cygwin X-server.

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startxwin.sh

Then you need to run SLIC from the xterm that pops-up. At least on my setup, it does not work to run the binary from the plain Cygwin windowIf you receive an error message about a missing DLL cygxerces-c26.dll, then make sure that the PATH is setup correctly and Xerces-C++ was properly installed.

Final Setup Script

The final version of setup.sh (without OpenGL visualization) should be similar to this.

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If you think this guide could be improved in any way, then please contact the author

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