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39This section describes the global computing environment required for
40installing the Geant4 toolkit. To set up your specific computing
41environment for Geant4, refer to Section 2 of this Guide.
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43A shell script (<CODE>Configure</CODE>) is provided to facilitate the
44installation procedure, and to help the user set up the environment correctly.
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47<A name="1.1">
48<H2>1.1 Supported Computers and Operating Systems</H2></A>
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50Geant4 is supported under the following operating systems:
51<UL>
52<LI>Linux on PC with g++ (gcc compiler)
53<LI>Flavors of Unix (from vendors: SUN)
54<LI>Windows/XP with MicroSoft Visual C++
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57Currently, this is the set of flavors which can be associated with the environment
58variable <CODE>$G4SYSTEM</CODE> to identify the system architecture and compiler
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61 Linux - Scientific Linux CERN, SLC3 or SLC4
62 g++ gcc 3.2.3 or 3.4.5 G4SYSTEM: Linux-g++
63 UNIX - SUN-SunOS v.5.8, CC Forte Developer 7
64 C++ 5.4 Patch 111715-05 G4SYSTEM: SUN-CC
65 Windows - Windows XP and Cygwin32,
66 MSVC++ 7.1 .NET G4SYSTEM: WIN32-VC
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68For a more detailed description of supported platforms/compilers and versions
69of third party software, please refer to the release notes available with the
70current release you're using in <CODE>geant4/ReleaseNotes</CODE> (also
71accessible from the web
72<a href="http://cern.ch/geant4/support/download.shtml">distribution page</a>).
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77<A name="1.2">
78<H2>1.2 Required Software</H2></A>
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80To run Geant4, the following software must be properly installed
81in your computing environment:
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83<LI>C++ compiler<BR>
84 (compiler from Unix vendor, g++ or Visual C++ for Windows systems)
85<LI>CLHEP library<BR>
86 (see CLHEP reference guide
87 <a target="ext" href="http://cern.ch/clhep/manual/RefGuide">
88 cern.ch/clhep/manual/RefGuide</a>)
89<LI>GNU Make (note: g++ preprocessing is used to build file dependencies)
90 is also used and a UNIX shell
91<LI>The Geant4 toolkit source code
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97<A name="1.3">
98<H2>1.3 Visualization Software</H2></A>
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100The above list of software is the minimum required for a non-graphical
101setup of Geant4. To use visualization graphics in Geant4 and/or a
102graphical user interface (GUI), at least one of the following graphic
103systems or packages is required in your computing environment:
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105<LI>X Windows</LI>
106<LI><a target="ext" href="http://www.opengl.org">OpenGL</a> or
107 <a target="ext" href="http://www.mesa3d.org">MesaGL</a>
108 (free software compatible with OpenGL)</LI>
109<LI><a target="ext" href="http://geant4.kek.jp/GEANT4/vis">DAWN</a>,
110 a PostScript renderer</LI>
111<LI><a target="ext" href="http://oss.sgi.com/projects/inventor">Open Inventor</a>
112 (free software from SGI)</LI>
113<LI><a target="ext" href="http://www.lal.in2p3.fr/OpenScientist">Open Scientist</a>
114 (Interactive environment, including GUI)</LI>
115<LI><a target="ext" href="http://www.slac.stanford.edu/BFROOT/www/Computing/Graphics/Wired">WIRED3 HepRep Browser</a>
116 (<a target="ext" href="http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~perl/heprep">HepRep</a> Browser)</LI>
117<LI><a target="ext" href="http://wired.freehep.org">WIRED4 JAS Plug-In</a>
118 (<a target="ext" href="http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~perl/heprep">HepRep</a> Browser)</LI>
119<LI><a target="ext" href="http://erpc1.naruto-u.ac.jp/~geant4">Momo</a>
120 (a <a target="ext" href="http://java.sun.com">Java</a>-based GUI
121 environment, GGE, GPE, ...)</LI>
122<LI>VRML browser</LI>
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125Alternatively, you can produce an ascii file for VRML or DAWN.
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127More information is available in Section 8.6, Visualization Drivers, of the
128User's Guide for Application Developers.
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133<A name="1.4">
134<H2>1.4 Software for Analysis and Histogramming</H2></A>
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136Histogramming facilities are provided through the <B>AIDA</B> abstract
137interface, which in this case needs to be installed as well:
138<UL>
139 <LI><A target="ext" href="http://aida.freehep.org">AIDA</A>
140 (Abstract Interfaces for Data Analysis)
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143External, AIDA-compliant packages which provide the necessary
144functionalities for doing histogramming (and therefore, should be optionally
145installed) are:
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147 <LI><A target="ext" href="http://jas.freehep.org">JAS</A>
148 (Java Analysis Studio)
149 <LI><A target="ext" href="http://cern.ch/pi">PI</A>
150 (AIDA Interactive Analysis Environment)
151 <LI><A target="ext" href="http://www.lal.in2p3.fr/OpenScientist">Open Scientist</A>
152 (Interactive Analysis Environment) .
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