Windows instructions

Using source:

Important! Do not use spaces in the directory names!

The following steps have to be taken to install and run ANTS2 on Windows:

Download and install MSVC2013 express

Download and install Qt package

Click “View All Downloads”, select offline installer for Windows Host, 32-bit, VS 2013

Download and install CERN ROOT

Select root 5, latest subversion; From available Windows versions, select "MSI packaging", "Windows Visual Studio 2013", "Release". Important: Do not use ROOT 6 or “Debug” version!

Download and unpack ANTS2 source

Open, build and run ANTS2 in QtCreator environment:

Double-click ants2.pro file in Windows explorer
When “Configure Project” menu appears, for the default configuration uncheck “Debug” option (might be hidden in “Details”) and press “Configure project”. This will configure ANTS2 to run in “Release” mode.
If Root was installed not to the default directory (c:\root), modify ants2.pro file accordingly (NOTE that “/” are used instead of “\”):

#---CERN ROOT---
win32 {
    INCLUDEPATH += c:/root/include
    LIBS += -Lc:/root/lib/
}

Run the project using “Run” in the main menu “Build” tab (or press Ctrl+R)

Optionalal features

The following options ARE NOT required for ANTS2 functionality

Event reconstruction using General Purporse GPU (graphics card):

If your computer is equipped with an Nvidia GPU card (must be CUDA-capable), it is possible to configure ANTS2 to run event reconstruction on GPU:

Download and install the latest CUDA toolkit.
Enable CUDA in ANTS2. Look for the following line in the top of ants2.pro and remove the # in the beggining of the line:

CONFIG += ants2_cuda        #enable CUDA support

Configure the path in ants.pro:

For example, if CUDA toolkit is installed in c:\cuda\toolkit:

#---CUDA---
win32 {
    CUDA_DIR = "c:/cuda/toolkit"
    }

Rebuild ANTS2:
Clean_All/ Run_qmake/ Build_All from the “Build” menu of QtCreator

Event reconstruction using artificial neural networks:

Download and install FANN library.
Enable FANN in ANTS2. Look for the following line in the top of ants2.pro and remove the # in the beggining of the line:

CONFIG += ants2_fann        #enables FANN

Configure the path in ants.pro:

#---FANN---
win32 {
    INCLUDEPATH += c:/FANN-2.2.0-Source/src/include
    LIBS += -Lc:/FANN-2.2.0-Source/bin/ -lfannfloat
}

Rebuild ANTS2:
Clean_All/ Run_qmake/ Build_All from the “Build” menu of QtCreator

Event reconstruction/filtering using kNN algorithm:

Download FLANN library.
Enable FLANN in ANTS2. Look for the following line in the top of ants2.pro and remove the # in the beggining of the line:

CONFIG += ants2_flann        #enables FLANN

Configure the path in ants.pro:

#---FLANN---
win32 {
    INCLUDEPATH += c:/FLANN/include
    LIBS += -Lc:/FLANN/lib/ -lflann
}

Rebuild ANTS2:
Clean_All/ Run_qmake/ Build_All from the “Build” menu of QtCreator

Eigen3 library for fast LRF fitting:

Download Eigen3 library. It is a header library, no compilation is needed.
Enable Eigen3 in ANTS2. Look for the following line in the top of ants2.pro and remove the # in the beggining of the line:

CONFIG += ants2_eigen3

Configure the path in ants.pro:

#---EIGEN---
win32 {
    INCLUDEPATH += C:/Eigen3
}

Rebuild ANTS2:
Clean_All/ Run_qmake/ Build_All from the “Build” menu of QtCreator

Using binary release:

Download the latest ANTS2 binary files

Download and install CERN ROOT v5 for MSVC 11 (Visual Studio 2012) to c:\root directory (it is NOT the default directory!)

Download and isntall Visual C++ redistributable for Visual Studio 2012

To start ANTS2 run bin\ants2.exe