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| 31 | <B>1. Installation Introduction</B></A> |
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| 38 | <!-- ============================================== Section --> |
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| 39 | This section describes the global computing environment required for |
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| 40 | installing the Geant4 toolkit. To set up your specific computing |
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| 41 | environment for Geant4, refer to Section 2 of this Guide. |
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| 42 | <P> |
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| 43 | A shell script (<CODE>Configure</CODE>) is provided to facilitate the |
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| 44 | installation procedure, and to help the user set up the environment correctly. |
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| 47 | <A name="1.1"> |
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| 48 | <H2>1.1 Supported Computers and Operating Systems</H2></A> |
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| 50 | Geant4 is supported under the following operating systems: |
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| 52 | <LI>Linux on PC with g++ (gcc compiler) |
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| 53 | <LI>Flavors of Unix (from vendors: SUN) |
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| 54 | <LI>Windows/XP with MicroSoft Visual C++ |
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| 55 | </UL> |
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| 57 | Currently, this is the set of flavors which can be associated with the environment |
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| 58 | variable <CODE>$G4SYSTEM</CODE> to identify the system architecture and compiler |
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| 59 | used: |
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| 61 | Linux - Scientific Linux CERN, SLC3 or SLC4 |
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| 62 | g++ gcc 3.2.3 or 3.4.5 G4SYSTEM: Linux-g++ |
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| 63 | UNIX - SUN-SunOS v.5.8, CC Forte Developer 7 |
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| 64 | C++ 5.4 Patch 111715-05 G4SYSTEM: SUN-CC |
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| 65 | Windows - Windows XP and Cygwin32, |
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| 66 | MSVC++ 7.1 .NET G4SYSTEM: WIN32-VC |
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| 67 | </PRE> |
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| 68 | For a more detailed description of supported platforms/compilers and versions |
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| 69 | of third party software, please refer to the release notes available with the |
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| 70 | current release you're using in <CODE>geant4/ReleaseNotes</CODE> (also |
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| 71 | accessible from the web |
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| 72 | <a href="http://cern.ch/geant4/support/download.shtml">distribution page</a>). |
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| 77 | <A name="1.2"> |
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| 78 | <H2>1.2 Required Software</H2></A> |
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| 80 | To run Geant4, the following software must be properly installed |
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| 81 | in your computing environment: |
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| 82 | <UL> |
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| 83 | <LI>C++ compiler<BR> |
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| 84 | (compiler from Unix vendor, g++ or Visual C++ for Windows systems) |
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| 85 | <LI>CLHEP library<BR> |
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| 86 | (see CLHEP reference guide |
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| 87 | <a target="ext" href="http://cern.ch/clhep/manual/RefGuide"> |
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| 88 | cern.ch/clhep/manual/RefGuide</a>) |
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| 89 | <LI>GNU Make (note: g++ preprocessing is used to build file dependencies) |
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| 90 | is also used and a UNIX shell |
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| 91 | <LI>The Geant4 toolkit source code |
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| 97 | <A name="1.3"> |
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| 98 | <H2>1.3 Visualization Software</H2></A> |
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| 100 | The above list of software is the minimum required for a non-graphical |
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| 101 | setup of Geant4. To use visualization graphics in Geant4 and/or a |
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| 102 | graphical user interface (GUI), at least one of the following graphic |
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| 103 | systems or packages is required in your computing environment: |
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| 104 | <UL> |
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| 105 | <LI>X Windows</LI> |
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| 106 | <LI><a target="ext" href="http://www.opengl.org">OpenGL</a> or |
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| 107 | <a target="ext" href="http://www.mesa3d.org">MesaGL</a> |
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| 108 | (free software compatible with OpenGL)</LI> |
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| 109 | <LI><a target="ext" href="http://geant4.kek.jp/GEANT4/vis">DAWN</a>, |
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| 110 | a PostScript renderer</LI> |
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| 111 | <LI><a target="ext" href="http://oss.sgi.com/projects/inventor">Open Inventor</a> |
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| 112 | (free software from SGI)</LI> |
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| 113 | <LI><a target="ext" href="http://www.lal.in2p3.fr/OpenScientist">Open Scientist</a> |
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| 114 | (Interactive environment, including GUI)</LI> |
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| 115 | <LI><a target="ext" href="http://www.slac.stanford.edu/BFROOT/www/Computing/Graphics/Wired">WIRED3 HepRep Browser</a> |
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| 116 | (<a target="ext" href="http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~perl/heprep">HepRep</a> Browser)</LI> |
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| 117 | <LI><a target="ext" href="http://wired.freehep.org">WIRED4 JAS Plug-In</a> |
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| 118 | (<a target="ext" href="http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~perl/heprep">HepRep</a> Browser)</LI> |
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| 119 | <LI><a target="ext" href="http://erpc1.naruto-u.ac.jp/~geant4">Momo</a> |
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| 120 | (a <a target="ext" href="http://java.sun.com">Java</a>-based GUI |
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| 121 | environment, GGE, GPE, ...)</LI> |
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| 122 | <LI>VRML browser</LI> |
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| 125 | Alternatively, you can produce an ascii file for VRML or DAWN. |
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| 127 | More information is available in Section 8.6, Visualization Drivers, of the |
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| 128 | User's Guide for Application Developers. |
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| 133 | <A name="1.4"> |
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| 134 | <H2>1.4 Software for Analysis and Histogramming</H2></A> |
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| 136 | Histogramming facilities are provided through the <B>AIDA</B> abstract |
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| 137 | interface, which in this case needs to be installed as well: |
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| 138 | <UL> |
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| 139 | <LI><A target="ext" href="http://aida.freehep.org">AIDA</A> |
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| 140 | (Abstract Interfaces for Data Analysis) |
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| 143 | External, AIDA-compliant packages which provide the necessary |
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| 144 | functionalities for doing histogramming (and therefore, should be optionally |
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| 145 | installed) are: |
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| 146 | <UL> |
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| 147 | <LI><A target="ext" href="http://jas.freehep.org">JAS</A> |
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| 148 | (Java Analysis Studio) |
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| 149 | <LI><A target="ext" href="http://cern.ch/pi">PI</A> |
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| 150 | (AIDA Interactive Analysis Environment) |
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| 151 | <LI><A target="ext" href="http://www.lal.in2p3.fr/OpenScientist">Open Scientist</A> |
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| 152 | (Interactive Analysis Environment) . |
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