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 Developer Studio 12.5)
  • ​PGI (version 15.10+)
  • ​LLVM/flang
• Unsupported compilers:
  • ​g95 0.93 fails to compile EventOutputFile.f90 (missing support for type-bound procedures)
  • ​Open64 fails to compile readHAFT.f (missing support for STREAM I/O)
  • ​Absoft v11.1.3 fails to compile bzip.f90
  • ​NAG v6.1 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.

• External libraries: (see below)
  • ​libbzip2
  • ​libLHAPDF v5 (optional)
  • ​GSL (via ​FGSL) (optional)

Libraries used in GiBUU

The code uses some external libraries, which are used in the usual compile and linking procedure.

• ​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.

In addition, some libraries are used by (partly) including the source code into the GiBUU source code tree.

• Numerical libraries
  
  • ​CERNLIB
  • ​QUADPACK
  • ​GSL via ​FGSL (optional, only needed for some testing progams) (source not included)

• Physics libraries
  
  • ​Pythia v6
  • ​MAID

• ROOT
  
  • ​RootTuple is used as Fortran/C++ interface to provide event output (optional)

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