Getting Started on Mac

These instructions describe how to clone the source code on Mac and build it

Prerequisites

• To install git in MacOS Catalina, macOS Big Sur, and MacOS Mojave, bring up a terminal window

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install.sh)"
brew doctor
brew install git

• To install in MacOS High Sierra, Sierra, El Capitan, and earlier, bring up a terminal window

/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
brew doctor
brew install git

• An installation of dotnet core 8.0 runtime for MacOS (https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download/dotnet/8.0)
• An installation of powershell, on OSX the commands are:

brew install powershell
pwsh

More instructions to install powershell can be found here

Getting the Source Code

Clone the source code from GitHub using the command:

git clone https://github.com/VirtualPhotonics/vts.git

This will create a directory "vts" in your current directory.

Building the Code

• Using powershell:

cd vts
pwsh
./BuildTestRelease.ps1 
exit

To execute any application, e.g. Monte Carlo CommandLine (MCCL):

cd src/Vts.MonteCarlo.CommandLineApplication/bin/Debug/net8.0/

To generate sample infiles for MCCL

./mc geninfiles

To run MCCL with sample infile

./mc infile=infile_one_layer_all_detectors.txt