Software and tools

Prerequisites for Compiling and Running GiBUU

• GiBUU supports the following operating systems:
  • Linux (primary platform, used by most developers)
  • Windows (via Cygwin), cf. GiBUU on Windows
  • Mac OS X, cf. GiBUU on Mac
  • other Unix-like systems may also work, but are untested
• GiBUU can be built with one of the following compilers:
  • ​Intel Fortran Compiler (version 10+)
  • ​GCC/gfortran (version 4.3+)
  • ​g95
  • ​Sun Studio Fortran Compiler sunf95 (Sun Studio 12 works fine, but 12.1 fails to compile Amplitudes.f90, 12.2 fails on LowPhotonAnalysis.f90)
  • ​Portland pgf95 (version 10.1+)
• Unsupported Compilers:
  • Both ​Open64 v4.2.4 (patched) and ​PathScale v3.2 die with a segmentation fault on determineSource.f90
  • ​Absoft v10.0 is not supported any more due to missing Fortran 2003 features (ISO_C_BINDING)
  • ​Lahey v8.1 is not supported due to missing Fortran 2003 features (GET_ENVIRONMENT_VARIABLE, ISO_C_BINDING, ...)
  • ​NAG v5.2.711 currently fails to compile Pythia and Jetset
• The Build process is steared via GNU make.
  
• Automated Makefile dependencies are generated via one of the following methods:
  • a Perl scipt (provided that Perl is installed)
  • ​makedepf90
• ​libbzip2 is used for reading compressed input files. For details see this page.

Optional Tools

• Version Control
  Our code is based upon a ​Subversion version control system. The code can therefore be restored to any time point of its development phase.
  GUI-Tools: ​eSvn, ​tortoise SVN.

• Documentation
  ​ROBODoc is generating an automatic ​code documentation.

• Visualisation Tools:
  
  • povray
  • Qt

Libraries used in GiBUU

These are (partly) included in the GiBUU source code.

• Numerical libraries
  
  • ​CERNLIB
  • ​QUADPACK

• Physics libraries
  
  • ​Pythia and JetSet
  • ​MAID