Software and tools

Prerequisites for Compiling and Running GiBUU

• Supported 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

• Supported compilers:
  • ​Intel Fortran Compiler (version 12+)
  • ​GCC/gfortran (version 4.6+)
  • ​sunf95 (Oracle Solaris Studio 12.4+)
  • ​PGI (version 15.10)
• Unsupported compilers:
  • ​g95 0.93 fails to compile EventOutputFile.f90 (missing support for type-bound procedures)
  • ​PathScale EKOPath 5 fails to compile EventOutputFile.f90 (missing support for abstract types)
  • ​Open64 fails to compile readHAFT.f (missing support for STREAM I/O)
  • ​Absoft v11.1.3 fails to compile bzip.f90
  • ​NAG v5.3.854 currently fails to compile Pythia and Jetset (with double precision)
  • ​Lahey v8.1 is not supported due to missing Fortran 2003 features (GET_ENVIRONMENT_VARIABLE, ISO_C_BINDING, ...)

• The Build process is steered via ​GNU make.
  
• Automated Makefile dependencies are generated via one of the following methods:
  • a Perl script (provided that ​Perl is installed)
  • ​makedepf90

• The code is managed and distributed through the ​Subversion version control system.

• The code uses following external libraries:
  • ​libbzip2
    used for reading compressed input files. For details see this page.
  • ​libLHAPDF v5 (optional)
    This is optional in connection with Pythia. For details see this page.

Optional Tools

• GUI Tools
  ​eSvn, ​tortoise SVN, ​eclipse.

• Documentation
  ​ROBODoc is used for generating automatic code documentation.
  Note: An enhanced version with some bugfixes is available on ​GitHub.

• Visualization Tools:
  
  • ​POV-Ray
  • ​Qt

Libraries used in GiBUU

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

• Numerical libraries
  
  • ​CERNLIB
  • ​QUADPACK
  • optional, not included: ​GSL via ​FGSL v1.0

• Physics libraries
  
  • ​Pythia and JetSet
  • ​MAID