McStas About McStas  Conditions of use  Authors/Contacts  Project funding  Screenshots Download  Components  Share Mailing list Search web/mailinglist Documentation  McStas manual  FAQ  Known problems  Publications  C Compilers  Other  Tutorial Workshops/conferences Developments  Platforms Links Report bugs SVN McStas Ubuntu live-dvd	Configuration and installation McStas uses autoconf to detect the system configuration and creates the proper Makefiles needed for compilation. On Unix-like systems, you should be able to compile and/or install McStas using the following steps: Unpack the sources to somewhere convenient and change to the source directory: gunzip -c <package>.tar.gz | tar xf - cd mcstas-1.11/ Configure McStas: ./configure or ./configure -with-nexus -with-cc=gcc-4.2 Optionally build/install PGPLOT (as superuser - build dependencies are pdl, g77, libx11-dev, xserver-xorg-dev, libxt-dev on Ubuntu): make install-pgplot && ./configure Build McStas (only in case of the mcstas-1.11-src.tar.gz package): make Install McStas (as superuser): make install The installation of McStas in step 5 by default installs in the /usr/local/ directory, which on most systems requires superuser (root) privileges. Printable version Last Modified: Friday, 03-Jun-2011 20:19:51 CEST