[Gate-users] Gate v6.2 compilation with Macports

[Marc Chamberland]

For what it's worth, I use the Gate port a few times every month to run simple simulations and everything is working as expected. I'm not a heavy user anymore, though, so I definitely have not thoroughly tested it.

One suggestion for the default buttons in the menu bar, though:

/gui/addButton viewer "Rebuild geometry" "/gate/geometry/rebuild"

I find that I use this a lot when inspecting my geometry.

Marc



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Marc Chamberland, MSc
PhD candidate
Department of Physics
Carleton University
Ottawa (ON)

On Dec 4, 2013, at 18:07, Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 8:11 AM, Matthew Lewis wrote:
>> 
>> the current installation guide seems to be Linux-centric….
>> 
>> I found one post in the 2013 archive about building CLHEP manually under OSX
>> Mountain Lion.
>> 
>> Macports will successfully build CLHEP and Geant4. Has anyone successfully
>> built Gate 6.2 using the dependencies from macports?
>> 
>> Any pointers for building on OSX 10.8.x would be appreciated….
> 
> A bit more than a year ago I started playing with a Portfile for Gate.
> 
> It's not version 6.2, it's one of the latest versions from git
> instead, but you can see the last version of the Portfile here:
>    https://trac.macports.org/browser/users/mojca/ports/science/gate/Portfile
> or the initial ticket (but ignore attachments which are old by now):
>    https://trac.macports.org/ticket/35992
> 
> The port works for me, but needs a tiny bit of polishing before the
> official inclusion into MacPorts trunk. For example, it should
> probably not reference my personal (maybe even modified) clone of the
> git repository from GitHub. I asked the Gate developers to create the
> official repository on GitHub and offered assistance, but I suspect
> they were too busy with other things then. The issue should probably
> be raised again because it makes an enormous difference for MacPorts
> whether (a clone of) the repository is available on GitHub or not.
> 
> Other than that:
> - I was waiting for some tiny fixes of the code to be applied to
> Gate's git repository (I didn't know about the issue that Jérôme
> mentioned, but it is probably on the list of those that would need to
> be applied for the port to work properly).
> - I used many of Jérôme's patches, but I didn't dare to simply patch
> Root or Geant4 at some places (some patches are not acceptable, for
> example hard-coding Gate's "About" window in Geant4; and some I don't
> understand).
> - It would be great to get some feedback from anyone before the port
> gets included.
> - It's not a requirement, but it's nice to use official releases for
> MacPorts. For a while I had a feeling that version 7.0 was short
> before the release and I kind-of-planned to add Gate to MacPorts when
> that happens, but I was wrong about the time plan of Gate 7.0. If
> version 7.0 came out or if there was more interest or feedback, I
> would probably have added the port to MacPorts already.
> 
> I spent a considerable amount of time creating new Geant4 ports
> bringing some very significant (packaging) changes compared to 9.4,
> but no single bug report came back, so I was assuming that there was
> close-to-zero user base for Geant4 in MacPorts (probably also because
> it was stuck at version 9.4 for too long and anyone with serious
> interest in Geant4 might want to install multiple copies on his own
> anyway). The Geant4 team actually fixed a number of issues and
> implemented some new functionality in the Qt part of Geant4 and these
> changes are already present in MacPorts. (The most welcome addition
> for me was support for copy-pasting multiple lines to the Qt window
> for example. Another "sugar" is that Gate is now displaying a toolbox
> line on top.)
> 
> At the moment I'm also working with ROOT developers to fix problems
> related to CMake-based packaging of ROOT. (They are actually very
> actively fixing problems right now.)
> 
> If anyone is willing to test either ROOT or Gate in MacPorts from my
> personal SVN branch
> (https://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/users/mojca), I would
> appreciate feedback a lot. As soon as there is enough consensus that
> the port works as expected, I can put the port in trunk, so that it
> will be available by default to every MacPorts user.
> 
> Mojca
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