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4.  Hints and changes

  • RNG Seeding : G4.8.2 uses the new CLHEP 2, which requires the CLHEP:: namespace - just specify it or add some "using" statements
    • To re-seed the Random Number Generator for many repeats of a MC from GEANT4 on differnt cores. In the main program of the GEANT4 application - 
     choose the Random engine
    CLHEP::HepRandom::setTheEngine(new CLHEP::RanecuEngine);
    if (argc>=3) {
        CLHEP::HepRandom::setTheSeed(atoi(argv[2]));
    }
in this way you can run, for example
  • ./<geant4app> <macro>.mac 1
  • ./<geant4app> <macro>.mac 2
  • cmake : Discussion about using cmake or make to compile projects.
  • GEANT on the Cluster :
The cluster has CVMFS available on all nodes. LCG releases include Geant4, ROOT and many other HEP software packages. The setup script can be sourced like so:
source /cvmfs/sft.cern.ch/lcg/views/setupViews.sh LCG_104 x86_64-centos7-gcc11-opt
Omit the target triplet to see a list of all triplets available for a given release or omit the release name to list all available releases. LCG releases are described at lcginfo.cern.ch (CERN account required).
  • Building Geant4 on Ubuntu
    • Install the following
      • sudo apt-get install cmake git
      • sudo apt-get install libx11-dev libxpm-dev libxft-dev libxext-dev
      • sudo apt-get install qt4-qmake libqt4-dev libxmu-dev
    • Download tar file from Geant4 website: for example geant4.10.02.p03.tar.gz
    • Extract files (it will place them into a dir such as "geant4.10.02.p03")
    • Create a build dir:
      • mkdir geant4.10.02.p03-build
      • cd geant4.10.02.p03-build
    • Then cmake as below: (NOTE there are two ways to do this depending if you let cmake AUTOMATICALLY download the required datafiles for you or if you MANUALLY do this)
    • AUTOMATIC way enter: 
      • cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/<PATH_TO_your_yet_to_be_created_install_dir>/geant4.10.02.p03-install -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo -DGEANT4_INSTALL_DATA=ON \\
	    -DGEANT4_USE_QT=ON -DGEANT4_USE_OPENGL_X11=ON -DGEANT4_USE_RAYTRACER_X11=ON ../geant4.10.02.p03
      • make
      • make install
      • (NOTE: If anything stops due to errors, you are usually missing some libraries so install them: $ sudo apt-get install library-dev for some library)
      • Edit .bachrc to include:
        • Geant4_DIR=/<PATH_TO>/geant4.10.02.p03-install
        • . $Geant4_DIR/bin/geant4.sh
    • MANUAL way:
      • Download the data tar files from GEANT4 site then from build_dir: 
        •  cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/<PATH_TO_your_yet_to_be_created_install_dir>/geant4.10.02.p03-install -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo -DGEANT4_INSTALL_DATA=OFF \\
            -DGEANT4_USE_QT=ON -DGEANT4_USE_OPENGL_X11=ON -DGEANT4_USE_RAYTRACER_X11=ON ../geant4.10.02.p03
        • make
        • make install
      • (NOTE: If anything stops due to errors, you are usually missing some libraries so install them: $ sudo apt-get install library-dev for some library)
      • Extract downloaded datafiles and put them into a dir called "data" then place this dir into /install_dir/share/Geant4-10.2.3
      • Edit .bashrc to include:
        • Geant4_DIR=/<PATH_TO>/geant4.10.02.p03-install
        • . $Geant4_DIR/bin/geant4.sh
  • Building Geant4 on a Mac ....
    • tested on Geant4.10.05 and OSX 10.13 to 10.15
    • Follow instructions at http://geant4-userdoc.web.cern.ch/geant4-userdoc/UsersGuides/InstallationGuide/html/
      • Install Xcode (latest), the command line tools and XQuartz.
        • Google how to install just the command line tools, not the whole X11, which takes over 10G space and is hardly used.
        • Check xquartz was up to date (just ran Xquartz, it automatically gave a notice about an update).
      • To have the visualisation tools, automatically download and install the data libraries (make sure you have x11, Qt, openmotif, expat) .... do the following (from your build directory) ....:
        • Install Qt version 5 ****
        • brew install qt
        • Check xquartz was up to date (just ran Xquartz, it automatically gave a notice about an update).
      • If you want Motif
        • brew install homebrew/x11/openmotif ( installed stable 2.3.4 )
      • Go into a separate build directory, out of source tree 
      •  cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/path/to/geant4.10.05-install/\\
          -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo \\
          -DGEANT4_INSTALL_DATA=ON \\
          -DGEANT4_USE_QT=ON \\
          -DGEANT4_USE_XM=ON \\                   <--- if you have it
          -DGEANT4_USE_OPENGL_X11=ON \\
          -DGEANT4_USE_RAYTRACER_X11=ON \\      
          -DMOTIF_INCLUDE_DIR=/usr/OpenMotif/include \\                    <--- if you have it
          -DMOTIF_LIBRARIES=/usr/OpenMotif/lib/libXm.3.1.dylib \\                   <--- if you have it
           /path to your source of geant4.10.05/
      • make -j4 to compile with support for 4 cores. Then
      • make install
      • Don't forget to source the geant4.sh script in your bashrc file from geant4.10.0-install/bin folder.
        • for zsh of Catalina you need to first cd to the file and then source it. 
        • current_dir=$PWD
cd ~connell/sw/geant4/geant4.10.05-install/bin
source geant4.sh
cd $current_dir
    • The CmakeLists file is now already set for using ROOT ... so just add export $G4ANALYSIS_USE_ROOT 1 in your bashrc file as well.
    • Note on the datasets. You can download them manually and place them in /path/to/geant4.10.01.p02-install/share/Geant4-10.1.2/data as that is where they are preconfigured to be. Then don't use the switch -DGEANT4_INSTALL_DATA=ON ... this is easier for slow networks.
    • For the MULTITHREADED version, use -DGEANT4_BUILD_MULTITHREADED=ON when you build Geant4 and then use /run/numberOfThreads n in your macro file.
    • If there are problems finding qt5, use -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=/usr/local/opt/qt5/ or wherever you have qt5.

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