WHIZARD Installation instructions

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Here we collect informations about the WHIZARD installation procedure. Most of this can be found as well in the INSTALL file as well as in the ​manual.

We review here the installation of the tarball of the latest version of WHIZARD 2. Technical details about the installation of the development version from the SVN trunk can be found in the ​manual.

The philosophy of WHIZARD 2 is that the program is installed centrally in a computer, e.g. in a directory /usr/local/, where all the binaries, libraries and necessary files are located, while the users run the program in workspaces in their home directories. (Working in batch mode can be handled, too.) The following describes a system installation, but of course a user can install WHIZARD also in his/her home directory.

Prerequisites

The general prerequisites for the installation are standard tools for software development like make etc., and two different compilers, a Fortran 2003 for the WHIZARD core and its corresponding libraries as well as the O'Caml compiler for the O'Mega matrix element generator.

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