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The SLIC detector simulation package requires the setup of 7 different pieces of software. This guide is intended as a step-by-step walkthrough of installing all these packages from scratch in the Windows Cygwin environment.

It presumes nothing except a working Windows machine with internet access.

Preliminaries

Cygwin

  1. Download www.cygwin.com/setup.exe from the www.cygwin.com.
  2. Double-click on it.
  3. Click Next.
  4. Select Install from Internet.
  5. Click Next.
  6. Enter your preferred Root Directory.
  7. Click Next.
  8. Enter your preferred Local Package Directory, which can be the same as the Root Directory.
  9. Click Next.
  10. Select Direct Connection if it is not already.
  11. Click Next.
  12. Select a site from the Available Download Sites. Servers inside your country will probably be fastest. I use ftp://ftp.sunsite.utk.edu.
  13. Click Next.
  14. 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.
    • Devel -> cvs
    • Devel -> gcc-core
    • Devel -> gcc-g++
    • Base -> gzip
    • Base -> tar
  15. The wget tool is also useful for downloading package tarballs and zip files.
    • Web -> wget
  16. Click Next after you have selected the packages.
  17. 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.
  18. If desired, select Create icon on Desktop or Add icon to Start Menu.
  19. Click Finish.

Testing the Cygwin Command Line Tools

  1. Select Start Menu -> Cygwin -> Cygwin Bash Shell
  2. Type cvs.
    • The usage should be shown.
  3. Type g++.
    • It should say "no input files".

Java

Work Area

We will install all packages into a common work area.

  1. From the Cygwin shell, create a work directory for SLIC and its external dependencies. 
    cd /cygdrive/c
mkdir sim
cd sim
  2. Create the file setup.sh with the following contents. (We will be adding to this file as the installation proceeds.) 
    #!/bin/sh
export sim_work=/cygdrive/c/sim

You are now ready to begin the package installations.

Leave your Cygwin window open, as you will be using it throughout the installation.

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.

  1. First, download the CLHEP tarball. 
    wget http://cern.ch/clhep/clhep-1.9.2.0.tgz
  2. Unzip to your work directory. 
    tar zxvf clhep-1.9.2.0.tgz
  3. Change to CLHEP directory. 
    cd 1.9.2.0/CLHEP
  4. Run configure. (Takes a long time!) 
    ./configure --disable-shared

Geant4

  1. Return to the work dir 
    cd $sim_work
  2. Download the Geant4 tarball. 
    wget http://geant4.cern.ch/geant4/source/source/geant4.7.0.p01.tar.gz
  3. Unzip it. 
    tar zxvf geant4.7.0.p01.tar.gz

LCIO

Xerces

GDML

LCDD

SLIC

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