Installation
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Standard layout of MIDAS experiment
This layout includes other packages needed for data analysis but not required for acquisition purpose only (noted as **). The online directory is given only as a suggested structure.
/home/exptuser/
packages/
root <---- ROOT (64-bit or 32-bit) (**)
mxml <---- from MIDAS repository
midas <---- MIDAS
linux/{lib,bin} <---- binaries matching the selected 64-bit/32-bit flavour of ROOT
linux-m32/{lib,bin} <---- limited function 32-bit binaries for 32-bit frontend machines, build by "make linux32"
linux-m64/{lib,bin} <---- limited function 64-bit binaries (only needed if ROOT and linux/bin are 32-bit)
linux-crosscompile/{lib,bin} <---- cross-compiled limited function binaries for PPC and ARM frontends (see Makefile)
online/
exptab <---- experiment definition
{.ODB,.SYSTEM,.SYSMSG,etc}.SHM <---- MIDAS shared memory save files
src <---- experiment frontend sources
bin,scripts
elog <---- MIDAS elog (**)
history <---- MIDAS history
data -> /data/exptname/current <---- symlink to the data directory (**)
/data/exptname/current <---- experiment data directory with ODB save files and MIDAS .mid/.mid.gz data files
Installing MIDAS
- mkdir $HOME/packages
- Logout and login again, for .cshrc or bash changes to take effect
- cd $HOME/packages
- git clone https://bitbucket.org/tmidas/midas
- git clone https://bitbucket.org/tmidas/mxml
- (IF BITBUCKET IS DOWN) git clone -v --progress http://daq.triumf.ca/~daqweb/git/mxml.git
- (IF BITBUCKET IS DOWN) git clone -v --progress http://daq.triumf.ca/~daqweb/git/midas.git
- cd midas
- make
- (only if needed) make linux32 ### build the 32-bit MIDAS libraries on 64-bit machine
- ls -l linux/bin/odbedit ### check that odbedit has been created (do not run it yet)
If the simple procedure listed above does not work, see our Common Installation Problems.
Setup a MIDAS experiment
See MIDAS installation instructions for TRIUMF experiments for further information.