GEANT4 Installation Instructions
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- Make directory GEANT4.
- 1.)
- Under the directory GEANT4 makdir CLHEP and put into the directory CLHEP the source file of CLHEP, which can be downloaded from here
http://proj-clhep.web.cern.ch/proj-clhep/DISTRIBUTION/distributions/clhep-2.0.3.1.tgz
soniatemo@inca:~/GEANT4/CLHEP$ ls clhep-2.0.3.1.tgz
- In GEANT4 directory make "geant4files" directory and copy geant4 source file and all data files that you need in geant4files directory
http://geant4.cern.ch/support/source/geant4.9.1.p02.tar.gz
http://geant4.cern.ch/support/source/G4NDL.3.10.tar.gz
http://geant4.cern.ch/support/source/G4NDL.0.2.tar.gz
http://geant4.cern.ch/support/source/G4EMLOW.4.2.tar.gz
http://geant4.cern.ch/support/source/PhotonEvaporation.2.0.tar.gz
http://geant4.cern.ch/support/source/G4RadioactiveDecay.3.1.tar.gz
soniatemo@inca:~/GEANT4$ cd geantfiles/ soniatemo@inca:~/GEANT4/geantfiles$ ls G4EMLOW.4.2.tar.gz G4NDL.3.10.tar.gz geant4.9.1.p02.tar.gz G4NDL.0.2.tar.gz G4RadioactiveDecay.3.1.tar.gz PhotonEvaporation.2.0.tar.gz
- 2.) CLHEP Installation
soniatemo@inca:~/GEANT4$ cd CLHEP/
soniatemo@inca:~/GEANT4/CLHEP$ ls clhep-2.0.3.1.tgz
- Unpack the source file
soniatemo@inca:~/GEANT4/CLHEP$ tar xzf clhep-2.0.3.1.tgz
- After you are done do the following
soniatemo@inca:~/GEANT4/CLHEP/2.0.3.1/CLHEP$ ./configure --prefix=/home/soniatemo/GEANT4/CLHEP --disable-shared
- At the end you should get
config.status: creating test/exctestNothrow.sh config.status: creating test/excDblThrow.sh config.status: creating Exceptions/defs.h config.status: executing depfiles commands
- 5.) Make and Install
soniatemo@inca:~/GEANT4/CLHEP/2.0.3.1/CLHEP$ make && make install
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 'libCLHEP-2.0.3.1.a' '/home/soniatemo/GEANT4/CLHEP/lib/libCLHEP-2.0.3.1.a' ranlib '/home/soniatemo/GEANT4/CLHEP/lib/libCLHEP-2.0.3.1.a' make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-am'. make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/soniatemo/GEANT4/CLHEP/2.0.3.1/CLHEP' make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/soniatemo/GEANT4/CLHEP/2.0.3.1/CLHEP'
- Make sure that under the CLHEP directory you have "include" and "lib" directories.
soniatemo@inca:~/GEANT4/CLHEP$ ls 2.0.3.1 bin clhep-2.0.3.1.tgz include lib
- Installation of CLHEP is done.
- 6.) GEANT4 Installation
soniatemo@inca:~/GEANT4$ ls
CLHEP geant4 geantfiles
- 7.) Unpack the geant4 source file and put it in the following directory /home/soniatemo/GEANT4/geant4
soniatemo@inca:~/GEANT4/geantfiles$ tar xzf geant4.9.1.p02.tar.gz -C /home/soniatemo/GEANT4/geant4 soniatemo@inca:~/GEANT4/geantfiles$ cd ../ soniatemo@inca:~/GEANT4$ ls CLHEP geant4 geantfiles soniatemo@inca:~/GEANT4$ cd geant4/ soniatemo@inca:~/GEANT4/geant4$ ls geant4.9.1.p02
- 8.)
soniatemo@inca:~/GEANT4/geantfiles$ ls G4EMLOW.4.2.tar.gz G4NDL.3.10.tar.gz geant4.9.1.p02.tar.gz G4NDL.0.2.tar.gz G4RadioactiveDecay.3.1.tar.gz PhotonEvaporation.2.0.tar.gz
- Start unpacking data files and put them into directory /home/soniatemo/GEANT4/geant4/data
soniatemo@inca:~/GEANT4/geantfiles$ tar xzf PhotonEvaporation.2.0.tar.gz -C /home/soniatemo/GEANT4/geant4/data soniatemo@inca:~/GEANT4/geantfiles$ tar xzf G4RadioactiveDecay.3.1.tar.gz -C /home/soniatemo/GEANT4/geant4/data soniatemo@inca:~/GEANT4/geantfiles$ tar xzf G4EMLOW.4.2.tar.gz -C /home/soniatemo/GEANT4/geant4/data soniatemo@inca:~/GEANT4/geantfiles$ tar xzf G4NDL.3.10.tar.gz -C /home/soniatemo/GEANT4/geant4/data
soniatemo@inca:~/GEANT4/geantfiles$ cd ../ soniatemo@inca:~/GEANT4$ cd geant4/data/ soniatemo@inca:~/GEANT4/geant4/data$ ls G4EMLOW4.2 G4NDL3.10 PhotonEvaporation2.0 RadioactiveDecay3.1
- 9.) Configure
soniatemo@inca:~/GEANT4/geant4/geant4.9.1.p02$ ./Configure -build
- 10.)
[Type carriage return to continue] (ENTER)
- 11.)
Definition of G4SYSTEM variable is Linux-g++. That stands for:
1) OS : Linux
2) Compiler : g++
To modify default settings, select number above (e.g. 2) [Press [Enter] for default settings] (ENTER)
- 12.)
I can set things up so that your shell scripts and binaries are more portable, at what may be a noticable cost in performance. In particular, if you ask to be portable, the following happens:
1) Shell scripts will rely on the PATH variable rather than using the paths derived above. 2) ~username interpretations will be done at run time rather than by Configure.
Do you expect to run these scripts and binaries on multiple machines? [n] y (ENTER)
- 13.)
Where is Geant4 source installed? [/home/soniatemo/GEANT4/geant4/geant4.9.1.p02]
Specify the path where Geant4 libraries and source files should be installed. [/home/soniatemo/GEANT4/geant4/geant4.9.1.p02]
Do you want to copy all Geant4 headers in one directory? [n] y (ENTER)
- 14.)
Please, specify default directory where ALL the Geant4 data is installed:
G4LEVELGAMMADATA: /home/soniatemo/GEANT4/geant4/geant4.9.1.p02/data/PhotonEvaporation2.0 G4RADIOACTIVEDATA: /home/soniatemo/GEANT4/geant4/geant4.9.1.p02/data/RadioactiveDecay3.2 G4LEDATA: /home/soniatemo/GEANT4/geant4/geant4.9.1.p02/data/G4EMLOW5.1 G4NEUTRONHPDATA: /home/soniatemo/GEANT4/geant4/geant4.9.1.p02/data/G4NDL3.12 G4ABLADATA: /home/soniatemo/GEANT4/geant4/geant4.9.1.p02/data/G4ABLA3.0 You will be asked about customizing these next. [/home/soniatemo/GEANT4/geant4/geant4.9.1.p02/data] /home/soniatemo/GEANT4/geant4/data
- 15.)
[/home/soniatemo/GEANT4/geant4/geant4.9.1.p02/data] /home/soniatemo/GEANT4/geant4/data Please, specify default directory where the Geant4 data is installed: 1) G4LEVELGAMMADATA: /home/soniatemo/GEANT4/geant4/data/PhotonEvaporation2.0 2) G4RADIOACTIVEDATA: /home/soniatemo/GEANT4/geant4/data/RadioactiveDecay3.2 3) G4LEDATA: /home/soniatemo/GEANT4/geant4/data/G4EMLOW5.1 4) G4NEUTRONHPDATA: /home/soniatemo/GEANT4/geant4/data/G4NDL3.12 5) G4ABLADATA: /home/soniatemo/GEANT4/geant4/data/G4ABLA3.0 To modify default settings, select number above (e.g. 2) [Press [Enter] for default settings]
- 16.)
Could not find CLHEP installed on this system! Please, specify where CLHEP is installed: CLHEP_BASE_DIR: /home/soniatemo/GEANT4/CLHEP
- 17.)
You can customize paths and library name of you CLHEP installation: 1) CLHEP_INCLUDE_DIR: /home/soniatemo/GEANT4/CLHEP/include 2) CLHEP_LIB_DIR: /home/soniatemo/GEANT4/CLHEP/lib 3) CLHEP_LIB: CLHEP To modify default settings, select number above (e.g. 2) [Press [Enter] for default settings] (ENTER)
- 18.)
By default 'static' (.a) libraries are built. Do you want to build 'shared' (.so) libraries? [n] (ENTER)
Do you want to build 'global' compound libraries? [n] y (ENTER)
Granular libraries are used by defaults, you asked to build global compound libraries. Do you want to build 'granular' libraries too? [n]
Do you want to compile libraries in DEBUG mode (-g)? [n] (ENTER)
- 19.)
G4UI_NONE If this variable is set, no UI sessions nor any UI libraries are built. This can be useful when running a pure batch job or in a user framework having its own UI system. Do you want to set this variable ? [n] (ENTER)
G4UI_BUILD_XAW_SESSION G4UI_USE_XAW Specifies to include and use the XAW interfaces in the application to be built. The XAW (X11 Athena Widget set) extensions are required to activate and build this driver. [n] (ENTER)
G4UI_BUILD_XM_SESSION G4UI_USE_XM Specifies to include and use the XM Motif based user interfaces. The XM Motif extensions are required to activate and build this driver. [n] (ENTER)
G4UI_BUILD_QT_SESSION G4UI_USE_QT Setting these variables will enable the building of the G4 Qt based user interface module and the use of this module in your applications respectively. The Qt4 headers, libraries and binaries are required to enable the building of this module. ### WARNING! THIS FEATURE IS EXPERIMENTAL IN THIS RELEASE! ### ### WARNING! THIS FEATURE WILL ONLY WORK WITH Qt4! ### Do you want to enable build and use of this module? [n] (ENTER)
G4VIS_NONE If this variable is set, no visualization drivers will be built or used. Do you want to set this variable ? [n] (ENTER)
- 20.)
G4VIS_BUILD_OPENGLX_DRIVER G4VIS_USE_OPENGLX It is an interface to the de facto standard 3D graphics library, OpenGL. It is well suited for real-time fast visualization and prototyping. The X11 version of the OpenGL libraries is required. [n] y (ENTER)
- 21.)
G4VIS_BUILD_OPENGLXM_DRIVER G4VIS_USE_OPENGLXM It is an interface to the de facto standard 3D graphics library, OpenGL. It is well suited for real-time fast visualization and prototyping. The X11 version of the OpenGL libraries and the Motif Xm extension is required. [n] (ENTER)
G4VIS_BUILD_DAWN_DRIVER G4VIS_USE_DAWN DAWN drivers are interfaces to the Fukui Renderer DAWN. DAWN is a vectorized 3D PostScript processor suited to prepare technical high quality outputs for presentation and/or documentation. [n] y (ENTER)
- 22.)
G4VIS_BUILD_OIX_DRIVER G4VIS_USE_OIX
The OpenInventor driver is based on OpenInventor technology for scientific visualization. The X11 version of OpenInventor is required. [n] (ENTER)
- 23.)
G4VIS_BUILD_RAYTRACERX_DRIVER G4VIS_USE_RAYTRACERX Allows for interactive ray-tracing graphics through X11. The X11 package is required. [n] (ENTER)
G4VIS_BUILD_VRML_DRIVER G4VIS_USE_VRML These driver generate VRML files, which describe 3D scenes to be visualized with a proper VRML viewer. [n] y (ENTER)
- 24.)
OGLHOME/include OGLHOME/lib You have selected to use OpenGL driver. Specify the correct path (OGLHOME) where OpenGL is installed in your system. It was found in /usr. Press [Enter] to set this path or type the correct one. You can set '-' (without quotation) to CANCEL the OpenGL flag at all: [/usr] (ENTER)
- 25.)
G4VIS_BUILD_OPENGLQT_DRIVER G4VIS_USE_OPENGLQT Setting these variables will enable the building of the G4 OpenGL Qt based visualisation driver and the use of this driver in your applications respectively. The Qt4 headers, libraries and binaries are required to enable the building of this module. ### WARNING! THIS FEATURE IS EXPERIMENTAL IN THIS RELEASE! ### ### WARNING! THIS FEATURE WILL ONLY WORK WITH Qt4! ### Do you want to enable build and use of this module? [n] (ENTER)
- 26.)
G4LIB_BUILD_G3TOG4 The utility module 'g3tog4' will be built by setting this variable. NOTE: it requires a valid FORTRAN compiler to be installed on your system and the 'cernlib' command in the path, in order to build the ancillary tools! Do you want to build 'g3tog4' ? [n] (ENTER) G4LIB_BUILD_ZLIB Do you want to activate compression for output files generated by the HepRep visualization driver? [n] (ENTER) G4ANALYSIS_USE Activates the configuration setup for allowing plugins to analysis tools based on AIDA (Astract Interfaces for Data Analysis). In order to use AIDA features and compliant analysis tools, the proper environment for these tools will have to be set (see documentation for the specific analysis tools). [n] (ENTER)
End of configuration phase. Stripping down executable paths... Creating configuration setup file... WARNING: the generated configuration file can be edited if necessary! You can introduce any change to the configuration file /home/soniatemo/GEANT4/geant4/geant4.9.1.p02/.config/bin/Linux-g++/config.sh before th inal installation. To do so, use a shell escape now (e.g. !vi /home/soniatemo/GEANT4/geant4/geant4.9.1.p0 config/bin/Linux-g++/config.sh). Press [Enter] to start installation or use a shell escape to edit config.sh: (ENTER)
- 27.)
Creating/replacing object files in /home/soniatemo/GEANT4/geant4/geant4.9.1.p02/lib/Linux-g++/libG4OpenGL.a ... ar: creating /home/soniatemo/GEANT4/geant4/geant4.9.1.p02/lib/Linux-g++/libG4OpenGL.a Building library management utility liblist ... Libraries installation completed ! #################################################### # Your Geant4 installation seems to be successful! # To be sure please have a look into the log file: # /home/soniatemo/GEANT4/geant4/geant4.9.1.p02/.config/bin/Linux-g++/g4make.log #################################################### soniatemo@inca:~/GEANT4/geant4/geant4.9.1.p02$
- 28.)
soniatemo@inca:~/GEANT4/geant4/geant4.9.1.p02$ ls
bin Configure examples lib ReleaseNotes tmp config environments include LICENSE source
- 29.) The setup script
soniatemo@inca:~/GEANT4/geant4/geant4.9.1.p02$ ./Configure --- Geant4 Toolkit Installation --- (setting environments for USER ) --------------------------------------------------- The Geant4 toolkit installation was found. The files env.[c]sh will be copied to your current directory. For setting Geant4 environments you should make: source env.csh or . env.sh It will also check G4WORKDIR setting and set it to your HOME if needed. You can use these files also for further modifications (adding your own environments). ---------------------------------------------------
- 30.)
soniatemo@inca:~/GEANT4/geant4/geant4.9.1.p02$ ls
bin Configure environments examples lib ReleaseNotes tmp config env.csh env.sh include LICENSE source
- 31.) Configuring the Environment
soniatemo@inca:~/GEANT4/geant4/geant4.9.1.p02$ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=~/CLHEP/lib/:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH soniatemo@inca:~/GEANT4/geant4/geant4.9.1.p02$ source env.sh
On this machine the G4SYSTEM=Linux-g++ On this machine the G4INSTALL=/home/soniatemo/GEANT4/geant4/geant4.9.1.p02 On this machine the G4INCLUDE=/home/soniatemo/GEANT4/geant4/geant4.9.1.p02/i clude/ On this machine the G4LIB=/home/soniatemo/GEANT4/geant4/geant4.9.1.p02/lib On this machine the G4LEVELGAMMADATA=/home/soniatemo/GEANT4/geant4/data/Phot nEvaporation2.0 On this machine the G4RADIOACTIVEDATA=/home/soniatemo/GEANT4/geant4/data/Rad oactiveDecay3.2 On this machine the G4LEDATA=/home/soniatemo/GEANT4/geant4/data/G4EMLOW5.1 On this machine the G4NEUTRONHPDATA=/home/soniatemo/GEANT4/geant4/data/G4NDL .12 On this machine the G4ABLADATA=/home/soniatemo/GEANT4/geant4/data/G4ABLA3.0 On this machine the CLHEP_BASE_DIR=/home/soniatemo/GEANT4/CLHEP On this machine the CLHEP_INCLUDE_DIR=/home/soniatemo/GEANT4/CLHEP/include On this machine the CLHEP_LIB_DIR=/home/soniatemo/GEANT4/CLHEP/lib On this machine the CLHEP_LIB=CLHEP On this machine the G4VIS_BUILD_DAWN_DRIVER=1 On this machine the G4VIS_BUILD_OPENGLX_DRIVER=1 On this machine the G4VIS_BUILD_VRML_DRIVER=1 On this machine the G4VIS_USE_DAWN=1 On this machine the G4VIS_USE_OPENGLX=1 On this machine the G4VIS_USE_VRML=1 On this machine the XMFLAGS= On this machine the XMLIBS= On this machine the XMFLAGS= On this machine the XAWFLAGS= On this machine the XAWLIBS= On this machine the G4LIB_BUILD_STATIC=1 On this machine the G4UI_USE_TCSH=1
- 33.)
soniatemo@inca:~/GEANT4/geant4/geant4.9.1.p02$ cd examples/novice/N02 soniatemo@inca:~/GEANT4/geant4/geant4.9.1.p02/examples/novice/N02$ make
Making dependency for file exampleN02.cc ... Making dependency for file src/ExN02TrackerSD.cc ... Making dependency for file src/ExN02TrackerHit.cc ... Making dependency for file src/ExN02SteppingVerbose.cc ... Making dependency for file src/ExN02SteppingAction.cc ... Making dependency for file src/ExN02RunAction.cc ...
ending
Compiling ExN02TrackerSD.cc ... Creating/replacing object files in /home/soniatemo/g4work/tmp/Linux-g++/exampleN02/libexampleN02.a ... ar: creating /home/soniatemo/g4work/tmp/Linux-g++/exampleN02/libexampleN02.a Compiling exampleN02.cc ... Using global libraries ... Linking exampleN02 ... ... Done!
- 34.)
soniatemo@inca:~/GEANT4/geant4/geant4.9.1.p02/examples/novice/N02$ exampleN02
- OpenGL Installation
- 1.) Download MesaLib-7.0.tar.gz and MesaGLUT-7.0.tar.gz from the following website
http://ftp.icm.edu.pl/packages/mesa/
- 2.) Unpack them
~/OpenGl > tar -zxvf MesaLib-7.0.tar.gz ~/OpenGl > tar -zxvf MesaGLUT-7.0.tar.gz
- 3.)
~/OpenGl > Mesa-7.0 MesaGLUT-7.0.tar.gz MesaLib-7.0.tar.gz tar
- Navigate to Mesa-7.0 directory and type "make linux-x86"
Mesa-7.0 > make linux-x86
- References
1.) http://geant4.cern.ch/
2.) http://geant4.slac.stanford.edu/tutorial/installation/Geant4.9.0/Linux/Geant4_9_0_Linux_Installation.htm
3.) http://ftp.icm.edu.pl/packages/mesa/