Running GiBUU on a Windows System

Step 1: Downloading the code

For normal users

1. Get your login account or just ​login.
2. Download the ​tar-ball to your system.
   • Please take care, that the path where you store the tar-ball does not include blanks.
   • Especially "C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\..." is no good, but "C:\work\" is fine!

For GiBUU developers

See ​TortoiseSVN SSH HowTo or follow the explanation given below:

1. Install ​putty on your system
   • At JLU Giessen you may also use the ​automatic network installation: Choose "Weitere Software" and then "putty".
2. Set up a ssh-key pair to be used with putty.
   • Go via putty, e.g., to tp1 an run "ssh-keygen" by typing

     ssh-keygen -t dsa
     

     This generates a dsa-keyfile called "id_dsa.pub" in the directory "~/.ssh".
   • Now execute

     cat ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub >> .ssh/authorized_keys
     

   • Open in your Windows "PuTTYgen"
   • Choose "conversions" and read in your freshly created private (not public!) dsa key, which is given by the file "~/.ssh/id_dsa". Save the key after conversion as a ".ppk"-file
   • Start putty's pageant (Start->Programme->Putty->Pageant)
   • Load the freshly created .ppk-file into pageant
     • Hint: Add the command "pageant 'path to your ppk.file'" as a link to your Windows-Autostart, such that pageant is started at system start.
3. Make sure "Pageant" is running and your ssh-key is loaded.
4. Open "putty" and go to "Session"
   • Enter
     • Host Name = yourUserName@tp11.physik.uni-giessen.de
     • Port= 16161 (within university port=22 works as well)
     • Connection type = ssh
   • Now save the session as "putty_tp11" (Putty->Session->Save Session)
   • Click on putty_tp11 and check whether a putty window opens with connects you directly to tp11. You should not be asked for your password! If you are still asked for it, please verify step 3! If putty can't connect, please verify hostname and port!
5. Install ​tortoise on your system
6. Download GiBUU to your windows hard drive. Details:
   1. Right click on your Desktop: After installing ​tortoise a menu item "SVN checkout" should be available.
   2. Left click on "SVN checkout".
   3. Enter in the field "URL of repository"

      svn+ssh://putty_tp11/home/svn/buu/GiBUU/   
      

      to download the code.
   4. Choose checkout directory, e.g.

      C:\GiBUU 
      

      • Please take care, that the full path where you store GiBUU does not include any blanks.
      • Especially "C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\..." is no good, but "C:\GiBUU" is fine!
   5. Click on "ok", and then "yes" to create the checkout directory.

Step 2: Compiling & Running GiBUU

Using Cygwin

1. Download ​cygwin
2. Setup cygwin. In the package selection choose additionally:
   • devel/gcc4-fortran
   • devel/make
   • devel/subversion
   • utils/which
   • utils/bzip2
   • libs/libbz2-devel
   • perl/perl
3. After the installation finished, start cygwin.
4. Now go to the GiBUU directory
   • If you downloaded the tar ball, change to the download directory (e.g.

      cd /cygdrive/c/work 
     

     Now unpack the tar-ball

     tar -xzf tarballName.tgz
     

   • If you used svn to get the code, then simply "cd" to the code directory, e.g.

     cd /cygdrive/c/GiBUU
     

5. Go to the directory "workingCode" (or "release1.x.x") and type

   make
   

6. After make is done, you will find the executable "GiBUU.x" in the "testRun" directory, where you can run GiBUU with the command

   ./GiBUU.x < jobCardName
   

   Sample jobcards are available in testRun/jobCards, cf. also our FAQ page for more informations.

In a terminal

Download your code to a network share, which is also accessible by some linux client. Go via putty to your linux client and compile the code as explained in "Readme_Quickstart.txt".

Advantage: Much faster compilation and better performance than Cygwin.