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Installation

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You can find here a short description of what to do to be able to compile and use HEPfit on your computer.

Dependencies

• GSL:

The GNU Scientific Library (GSL) is a library for numerical computation.

• ROOT v5 or later:

ROOT is an object oriented data analysis framework. You can obtain it from http://root.cern.ch/.

• BOOST:

BOOST is a C++ library. You can obtain it from http://www.boost.org.

• BAT v0.9.4 (not required for the Library mode):

Optionally, BAT (Bayesian Analysis Toolkit) can be obtained from https://www.mppmu.mpg.de/bat/ for a Monte Carlo run. With the compilation option -DBAT_INSTALL=ON explained below, the HEPfit installation package will download and install BAT. Notice that at present HEPfit is not compatible with BAT compiled with the --enable-parallelization option.

• MPI:

Optionally, HEPfit can be compiled with MPI for usage in parallel clusters and processpors supporting multi-threading. In this case, the HEPfit installer will patch and compile BAT with MPI support.

Installation Procedure

Unpack the tarball containing the HEPfit source. A directory called HEPfit-x.x will be created containing the source code. To generate Makefiles, enter the source directory and run CMake:

1 $cd HEPfit-x.x 2$ cmake . <options>

(RECOMMENDED:) Alternatively, a directory separate from the source directory can be made for building HEPfit (recommended as it allows for easy deletion of the build):

1 $mkdir HEPfit-x.x/build 2$ cd HEPfit-x.x/build
3 $cmake .. <options> where the available options are: • -DLOCAL_INSTALL_ALL=ON to install BAT and HEPfit in the current directory (default: OFF). This is equivalent in setting the options -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=./HEPfit, -BAT_INSTALL_DIR=./BAT and -DBAT_INSTALL=ON, where these variables cannot be modified individually when -DLOCAL_INSTALL_ALL=ON is set. • -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=<HEPfit installation directory> (default: /usr/local) • -DNOMCMC=ON to enable the No MCMC mode (default: OFF) • -DDEBUG_MODE=ON to enable the debug mode (default: OFF) • -DBAT_INSTALL_DIR=<BAT installation directory> (default: /usr/local). This option is overruled by -DLOCAL_INSTALL_ALL=ON • -DBAT_INSTALL=ON to download and install BAT (default: OFF) • -DMPIBAT=ON to enable support for MPI (requires an implementation of MPI, default: OFF) • -DMPI_CXX_COMPILER=<path to mpi>/mpicxx • -DBOOST_INCLUDE_DIR=<boost custom include path>/boost/ • -DGSL_CONFIG_DIR=<path to gsl-config> • -DROOT_CONFIG_DIR=<path to root-config> Setting the option -DBAT_INSTALL=ON, the HEPfit installer will download, compile and install the BAT libraries. NOTE: Please make sure that the BAT libraries are not already present in the BAT installation directory. If it is present, the installer does not build BAT, and uses the pre-installed one. This is particularly problematic if switching to or from the MPI version of BAT (-DMPIBAT=ON) No MCMC mode: The generated Makefiles are used for building a HEPfit library. If you do not perform a Bayesian statistical analysis with the Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC), you can use the option -DNOMCMC=ON. For this case, BAT is not required. MPI Support: If you want to perform a MCMC run with MPI support, you can specify the option -DMPIBAT=ON. This option must be accompanied with -DBAT_INSTALL=ON in order to enable the HEPfit installer to download, patch and compile BAT with MPI support: 1$ cmake . -DBAT_INSTALL=ON -DMPIBAT=ON <other options>

make sure non-MPI BAT libraries are not already installed in the BAT installation directory

ROOT: CMake checks for ROOT availability in the system and fails if ROOT is not installed. You can specify the path to root-config using the option -DROOT_CONFIG_DIR=<path to root-config>.

BOOST: CMake also checks for BOOST availability in the system and fails if BOOST is not installed. You can specify the path to the BOOST include files with -DBOOST_INCLUDE_DIR=<boost custom include path>/boost/.

After successful CMake run, execute the build commands:

1 $make 2$ make install

to compile and install HEPfit, where the command 'make VERBOSE=1' enables verbose output and 'make -j' allows for parallel compilation. Note that depending on the setting of installation prefix you might need root priviledges to be able to install HEPfit with 'sudo make install' instead of just 'make install'.

Post Install

Executable: <CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX>/bin/hepfit-config

Library: <CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX>/lib/libHEPfit.a

Combined Header: <CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX>/include/HEPfit/HEPfit.h

Using hepfit-config

A hepfit-config script can be found in the <CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX>/bin/ directory, which can be invoked with the following options:

• --cflags

to obtain the include path needed for compilation against the HEPfit library

• --libs

to obtain the flags needed for linking against the HEPfit library

Examples

The example programs can be found in the HEPfit build directory:

• examples/LibMode_config/
• examples/LibMode_header/
• examples/MonteCarloMode/
• examples/myModel/

where the first two demonstrate the usage of the HEPfit library, while the last one can be used for testing a Monte Carlo run with the HEPfit executable. The fourth one is an example implementation of a custom model and custom observables.