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Dependencies

Setting up for building McStas/McXtrace

We generally recommend building via either our

• Our conda-forge utility scripts: Build your own McStas or McXtrace via conda‐forge
• Our legacy build-scripts Building McStas/McXtrace

You may however build McStas or McXtrace using basic CMake commands, after installing basic build-dependencies yourself:

Basic required build dependencies:

• cmake
• A c99-capable compiler and basic build dependencies(Debian gcc build-essential)
• LeX and Yacc (aka. Flex and Bison)(Debian flex bison)

Optional build dependencies:

• A Fortran compiler to allow building cif2hkl(Debian gfortran)
• A LaTeX system to build the manual(s)(Debian texlive poppler-utils texlive-latex-extra texlive-bibtex-extra texlive-pstricks texlive-science
• Tools to build “metapackages”(Debian equivs)

(An updated list of dependencies can be found via our conda dependency tool or our legacy dependency scripts

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Building

Proceed as normal, i.e.

• From your repo-checkout (cd McCode) create a build directory (mkdir build) and enter that (cd build)
• Run cmake .. -DBUILD_MCXTRACE=ON or cmake .. -DBUILD_MCSTAS=ON
• Run cmake --build . to build
• Run cmake --install . to install Please refer to CMake documentation for further details