README bcal_ana

Aug. 29, 2006
David Lawrence


This is an example program that shows how to access the BCAL06
beam test data and use it to create an ASCII file.
It uses a mutex for serializing access to the
ROOT memory so this should be thread safe. To run it with
multiple processing threads, run the program with the
--nthreads=XXX option where XXX is the number of threads.

To compile this program you need a compiled JANA package
whose location given in the JLAB_HOME environment variable.

The JLAB_MY environment variable should also be set to
a directory where the compiled binaries can be installed.

Before compiling this program, you should first compile
and install the plugins for bcal06 (in src/plugins)
via: "make install". The install step will copy header
files into ${JLAB_MY}/include where they can be found
when compiling this program.

For more details on setting up JANA and building the
libraries, see:

http://www.jlab.org/Hall-D/software/wiki/index.php/HOWTO_documentation#HOWTO_Analyze_Data_Offline


Once the above packages are installed, you can build
bcal_ana with just "make install". The binary will be
installed in ${JLAB_MY}/bin/${OSNAME} where the OSNAME
environment variable is set to the uname which 
should be something like "Linux".

Questions, and comments should be directed to David Lawrence
757-269-5567  davidl@jlab.org.