Changes between Version 6 and Version 7 of installation

Timestamp:

May 24, 2010, 1:54:36 PM (15 years ago)

Author:

Juergen Reuter

Comment:

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installation

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 describes a system installation, but of course a user can install WHIZARD also in his/her home directory.
 
-== Prerequisites ==
+=== Prerequisites ===
 
 The general prerequisites for the installation are standard tools 
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 element generator. Details and links for the compilers can be found 
 [http://projects.hepforge.org/whizard/compilers.html here.]
+
+=== Configuration ===
 
 After you downloaded the most recent tarball from the main page,
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 }}}
 
+For most of these there is no need to be set during installation. 
+
+The configure process checks for the build and host system type; only
+if this is not detected automatically, the user would have to specify
+this by himself. After that system-dependent files are searched for,
+LaTeX and Acroread for documentation and plots, the FORTRAN compiler 
+is checked, and finally the O'Caml compiler. The next step is the
+checks for external programs like {{{LHAPDF}}} and {{{HepMC}}}.
+Finally, all the Makefiles are being built. 
+
+=== Compilation and Installation ===
+
+The compilation is done by invoking {{{make}}} and finally
+{{{make install}}}. You could also do a {{{make check}}} in
+order to test whether the compilation has produced sane files on your
+system. This is highly recommended, but need to be done only for the 
+first installation.
 
 Back to the [http://projects.hepforge.org/whizard/trac/wiki main page.]