Rave Installation

Dependencies

The following software is needed to build rave:

• (Gnu) C++ compiler
• boost
• clhep2 (should work with clhep1, also, though).

In the future, root's TMVA analysis toolkit can optionally be used by rave for flavor-tagging (along with non-TMVA-dependent learning algorithms).

Download

Note that various packages and tarballs exist, see the download section: ​http://www.hepforge.org/downloads/rave

If you download from the svn repository, the following command would do the job:

  svn co http://svn.hepforge.org/rave/trunk

You will need to sh bootstrap if you compile from the svn repository.

If you download the zipped svn archive from the web, you'll have to add the 'svn externals' manually:

  cd m4 && svn co http://svn.hepforge.org/cedar/trunk/pub/autotools/ cedar

Linux/Unix?

Rave is fully autotooled. configure; make; make install are your friends. Package builders may want to call bootstrap before using configure and make. Also check configure --help for special configuration options.

Java

In order to be able to build the java bindings, the following applications need to be installed on the system:

• javac (gcj will soon be added as another option)
• java
• jar or fastjar
• swig

If these are all found, then building the java bindings will be enabled per default. Disabling the bindings can also be specified explicitly:

./configure --disable-java

It might be necessary to tell configure where to look for the java binaries and libraries:

./configure --with-java-home=<JAVAHOME>

Note that with rave < 0.2.2, for java to work, it is necessary to turn off optimisation, e.g.

configure CXXFLAGS="-g" 

This is fixed in the subversion head.

Windows

See InstallationForVisualStudio for instructions on how to build Rave using Microsoft Visual Studio.

Windows dlls do not yet work, mainly one clhep patch which is needed is not yet published. But as soon as it is, Rave "native" windows dlls can be compiled both under cygwin, (using the mingw compiler), as well as using the cross-mingw compiler for e.g. Linux. Because windows is such a peculiar platform, one has to do "make dlls" _after_ having done "make". Apart from this, everything else should be the same. For cross-compiling, cross-configure.sh and cross-make.sh come with rave (see ./scripts).

Under cygwin, the following packages should be installed: boost, boost-devel, gcc-mingw-g++, gcc-mingw-java, pkg-config, swig, automake

Links:

• cygwin: ​http://www.cygwin.com/
• clhep: ​http://proj-clhep.web.cern.ch/proj-clhep/DISTRIBUTION/clhep.html
• swig: ​http://www.swig.org/download.html