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Commit 23fc7392 authored by Sylvester Joosten's avatar Sylvester Joosten
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Explain ATHENA_PREFIX

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*For an optimal experience, we strongly recommend you to use singularity 3 or later for this tutorial.
Use (very) old versions of singularity (e.g. 2.6.x) at your own risk!*
## The EIC Software Container (jug_xl)
## Step 1: Setup the EIC Software Container (jug_xl)
### Step 1: Create a local directory that you want to work in, e.g., `~/eic`
### Step 1a: Create a local directory that you want to work in, e.g., `~/eic`
```bash
mkdir ~/eic
cd ~/eic
```
### Step 2: Deploy the containerized environment and launch a shell
### Step 1b: Deploy the containerized environment and launch a shell
Execute the following line in your terminal to setup your environment in your sandbox
directory. This will install the latest stable container and place a script called
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./eic-shell
```
### Step 3: Clone the repos
Note that starting `eic-shell` will set the environment variable `ATHENA_PREFIX` to point
to the `local` subdirectory of your chosen working directory (e.g.,`~/eic/local`.
This will then automatically add `$ATHENA_PREFIX/lib` to your `LD_LIBRARY_PATH` in the
container. This means that anything you install to the `ATHENA_PREFIX` will be
automatically available in your environment. This is important for DD4hep to find your
custom installed detector plugins.
## Step 2: Clone the repos
There are 2 repos you need:
* IP6 (IP-specific components)
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In part 1 of the tutorial we will be mostly using files from a tutorial repo.
Later on, we will com back to these detector repositories.
### Step 4: Looking at the geometry
## Step 3: Looking at the geometry
Before moving on to part 1, let's generate the geometry in a root file:
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### Compile the detector library
```bash
cmake -B build -S . -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=../local/ -DCMAKE_CXX_STANDARD=17
cmake -B build -S . -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$ATHENA_PREFIX -DCMAKE_CXX_STANDARD=17
cmake --build build -j4 -- install
```
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