Hi Rene, Okido, I'll take the pythia stuff tomorrow and will have a look at it. However, I don't have a fortran compiler on my machine so I hope I can dig one up. I'll keep you informed. Cheers, Nick. Rene Brun wrote: > Hi Nick, > > Concerning Pythia6 on windows: if you or a Windows guru > have time to investigate why pythia62 does not compile > under Xp with the .NET environment, you can take > ftp://root.tar.gz/root/pythia62win.tar.gz > and try to build the dll/lib using setpythia.bat. > This used to work under Windows/NT with the previous MS > Fortran compiler. > If somebody send me the necessary changes to make this dll, > I will be happy to include it in the next release. > > Rene Brun > > On Tue, 22 Jul > 2003, Nick van Eijndhoven wrote: > > >>Hi Rene, >>I get your point, but I don't think it's pure accident that >>my stuff works under win98. >>The windows release of ROOT 3.05/06 doesn't have any TPythia6 >>stuff in; what I did was that I saved all the TPythia6 stuff >>(i.e. all .lib, .dll and corresponding header files like e.g. >>TPythia6Calls.h, TMCParticle.h etc...) from a previous version >>3.04. So as far as I can see, the TPythia6 stuff I have is intrinsically >>consistent. This might be the reason that it works correctly. >> >>Of course it would be better if the CERNLIB guys brushed up their >>code such that it compiles also with VC++7.NET so you can again >>include the pythia stuff in the ROOT binary release as you did >>upto now for windows. >> >>Really, this "built-in pythia generator" in ROOT is a very versatile >>tool; not only for physics investigations, but also to quickly >>test and optimise event data structures for large events (like >>LHC Pb+Pb collisions or cosmic ray interations). >> >> Cheers, >> Nick. >> >>Rene Brun wrote: >> >>>Hi Nick, >>> >>>The Pythia libs distributed with ROOT 3.05 CANNOT WORK with Pythia 6.1. >>>You must use Pythia 6.2. In Pythia 6.2 the length of /PyDat3/ has been >>>changed from 4000 to 8000 particles. ROOT 3.05 is consistent with >>>this dimension. See $ROOTSYS/pythia6/inc/TPythia6Calls.h >>> >>>The fact that it works with you under Windows98 is purely an accident, >>>because Windows prevent communication between common blocks defined >>>in separate DLLs. Your program may work if you do not use the elements >>>in PyDat3, but even in this case, I would not trust the results. >>> >>>Rene Brun >>> >>>Nick van Eijndhoven wrote: >>> >>> >>>>Dear all, >>>>Some days ago I saw a mail from somebody who had problems in setting >>>>pi0's stable in the TPythia6 generator using one of the recent ROOT >>>>releases. >>>>If I remember well, there was an answer that one can't use Pythia6.1 >>>>anymore with Root 3.05. >>>>Obviously I got a bit nervous about such messages, so I took the latest >>>>Root 3.05/06 binaries (gdk version for windows) from the web and run >>>>some test on my win98 machine. >>>>Attached you will find the little script aap.cc and the produced output >>>>aap.log, which shows that everything runs correctly. >>>>I think the particle code argument to SetMDCY() was wrong in email >>>>mentioning the problem. It should not be 111, but the 'pythia equivalent >>>>code'. >>>>The only thing one should do (at least for the windows version) is taking >>>>the TPythia related header files and libs and include them at the >>>>corresponding locations in your root directory, since they are not part >>>>(for the time being) of the binary Root release. >>>>However, the ones of the Root 3.04 release work pretty fine. >>>>In case you want all the TPythia stuff 'ready to copy' into the root >>>>directory, you can pickup the TPythia.zip file of my homepage->Download. >>>> >>>> Cheers, >>>> Nick. >>>> >>>>-- >>>>Dr. Nick van Eijndhoven mailto:nick@phys.uu.nl http://www.phys.uu.nl/~nick >>>>-------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>>Org.: Utrecht University, Faculty of Physics and Astronomy >>>>Address: Princetonplein 5, NL-3584 CC Utrecht, The Netherlands >>>>Phone: +31-30-2532331(direct) +31-30-2531492(secr.) Fax: +31-30-2518689 >>>>CERN: +41-22-7679751(direct) +41-22-7675857(secr.) Fax: +41-22-7679480 >>>>Offices: Buys Ballot laboratory Room 710 (Utrecht) B23 1-020 (CERN) >>>>-------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>
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