Depending on your system speed, the entire build process will take around 2 hours, but starting the automated build only takes about 5 minutes.

Packages in the Distribution

There are nine software packages built by SimDist, only one of which is optional.

These are described in the table below.

Package	Version	Description
CLHEP	2.0.4.7	physics utilities for Geant4
Geant4	9.3.1	physics simulation toolkit
LCIO	head	ILC data format
HepPDT	3.3.2	extended physics data
Xerces	3.1.1	XML toolkit
GDML	head	geometry XML format
LCDD	head	detector description XML format
SLIC	head	simulation front-end
LCDetectors	head	detector data library (optional)

Versions are current as of 8/25/2010.

Build Instructions

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