Software/Geant4/Installation/Qt
Introduction
For Geant4, the Qt headers and libraries are required in order to allow visualisation and interaction through the Qt user interface.
Details
- Website
- http://qt-project.org
- Source URL
- http://download.qt.io/official_releases/qt/5.6/5.6.0/submodules/
- Installed version
- 5.6.0 (24 April 2014)
- Source code
src/geant4-prerequisites/qt/qtbase-opensource-src-5.6.0.tar.gz
Installation Notes
Geant4 supports Qt 4.6 or higher (Qt 4.8 or higher on Mac).
Qt is available in a number of different versions and with a vast array of submodules. Only the "qtbase" submodule is required to compile all the elements required for Geant4. The various different installer and source code options can be found at: http://www.qt.io/download-open-source/
For installation, Qt does not support installation into a sandbox directory (i.e. there are no options prefix or DESTDIR defined for command make install) and must be given the installation directory with the -prefix option. As such, to recompile Qt for different target directories, the configure script must be rerun with a modified -prefix /path/to/dest option. This has to be managed manually as can be seen in the installation commands below.
The tarball extracts to a rather long folder name. To follow the installation commands below, rename this to src/qt-5.6.0.
Some instructions on the correct package to download and the various compilation flags were provided by Ben Morgan at Warwick, along with this configuration script:
https://github.com/SuperNEMO-DBD/homebrew-cadfael/blob/master/Formula/qt5-base.rb
Installation
Installation commands:
cd /unix/pbt/software/build mkdir -pv qt/qt-5.6.0 cd qt/qt-5.6.0 ../../../src/qt-5.6.0/configure -prefix /unix/pbt/software/dev/qt-5.6.0 -release -opensource -confirm-licence -nomake tests -nomake examples -optimized-qmake -opengl -qt-xcb make make install