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# Geant4 Installation on Windows 11
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For Geant4 version 11.2.0 you can also apply pathch win.path
which you can found in installg4/install/MSVC/ directory.
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Hire the instructions for native Geant4 installation with the Visual Studio C++ compiler on Windows.
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* Windows 10 or 11
* Microsoft Visual Studio C++ compiler
The installation tested with Windows 11 MSVC 2022 (v17.13.5) and Qt 5.12.2
The installation tested with Windows 11 MSVC 2022 (v17.13.6) and Qt 5.12.2
## Development Environment
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### CMake for Windows
The Visual Studio come with cmake program but without CMake GUI.
We use this cmake for compilation and installing Geant4.
We use this cmake from Visual Studio for compilation and installing Geant4.
You can download and install latest version directly from
https://cmake.org/download/ or use package installers like
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I use following commands:
```
7z x xerces-c-3.2.3.zip
7z x xerces-c-3.2.5.zip
mkdir xerces-c-build
cd xerces-c-build
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=D:\Xerces-C ..\xerces-c-3.2.3
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=D:\Xerces-C ..\xerces-c-3.2.5
cmake --build . --config RelWithDebInfo --parallel
ctest -V -C RelWithDebInfo -j 4
cmake --build . --config RelWithDebInfo --parallel --target install
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### 1. Open new DOS Prompt window
- You can use "x86 Native Tools Command Promt for VS 2022" and setup Qt
environment via command `call <QT_INSTALL_DIR\msvc2019_64\bin\qtenv2.bat`
### 2. Setup environment
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`call setup_env.bat`
> Alternativly ou can use "x86 Native Tools Command Promt for VS 2022"
> and setup Qt environment via command
> `call <QT_INSTALL_DIR\msvc2019_64\bin\qtenv2.bat`
### 3. Test Geant4 installation
Setup Geant4 environment:
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call d:\Geant4\dev\bin\geant4.bat
```
cmake search path for Xerces-C must set or give to cmake as -D parameter
```
set CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=D:\Xerces-C
``
Try to compile B1 example
```
mkdir B1-Build
cd B1-Build
cmake d:\Geant4\dev\share\Geant4\examples\basic\B1
cmake d:\Geant4\11.3.1\share\Geant4\examples\basic\B1
```
You will see the output like this:
```
-- Building for: Visual Studio 17 2022
-- Selecting Windows SDK version 10.0.22000.0 to target Windows 10.0.19045.
-- The C compiler identification is MSVC 19.35.32217.1
-- The CXX compiler identification is MSVC 19.35.32217.1
-- Selecting Windows SDK version 10.0.22000.0 to target Windows 10.0.26100.
-- The C compiler identification is MSVC 19.43.34810.0
-- The CXX compiler identification is MSVC 19.43.34810.0
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info - done
-- Check for working C compiler: C:/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio/2022/Community/VC/Tools/MSVC/14.35.32215/bin/Hostx64/x64/cl.exe - skipped
-- Check for working C compiler: C:/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio/2022/Community/VC/Tools/MSVC/14.43.34808/bin/Hostx64/x64/cl.exe - skipped
-- Detecting C compile features
-- Detecting C compile features - done
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info - done
-- Check for working CXX compiler: C:/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio/2022/Community/VC/Tools/MSVC/14.35.32215/bin/Hostx64/x64/cl.exe - skipped
-- Check for working CXX compiler: C:/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio/2022/Community/VC/Tools/MSVC/14.43.34808/bin/Hostx64/x64/cl.exe - skipped
-- Detecting CXX compile features
-- Detecting CXX compile features - done
-- Performing Test CMAKE_HAVE_LIBC_PTHREAD
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-- Looking for pthread_create in pthread
-- Looking for pthread_create in pthread - not found
-- Found Threads: TRUE
-- Found XercesC: D:/Xerces-C/lib/xerces-c_3.lib (found suitable version "3.2.3", minimum required is "3.2.3")
-- Found XercesC: D:/Xerces-C/lib/xerces-c_3.lib (found suitable version "3.3.0", minimum required is "3.3.0")
-- Found OpenGL: opengl32
-- Found Geant4: D:/Geant4/11.1.1/lib/cmake/Geant4/Geant4Config.cmake (found version "11.1.1")
-- Configuring done
-- Generating done
-- Build files have been written to: D:/workspace/GEANT4/B1-build
-- Found Geant4: D:/Geant4/11.3.1/lib/cmake/Geant4/Geant4Config.cmake (found version "11.3.1")
-- Configuring done (14.3s)
-- Generating done (0.1s)
-- Build files have been written to: ... /B1-build
```
Now we can build and run example.
The build step:
```cmake --build . --config RelWithDebInfo --parallel 4```
```cmake --build . --config RelWithDebInfo --parallel 8
Version MSBuild 17.13.19+0d9f5a35a pour .NET Framework
1>Checking Build System
Building Custom Rule D:/Geant4/11.3.1/share/Geant4/examples/basic/B1/CMakeLists.txt
exampleB1.cc
ActionInitialization.cc
DetectorConstruction.cc
EventAction.cc
PrimaryGeneratorAction.cc
RunAction.cc
SteppingAction.cc
Génération de code en cours...
exampleB1.vcxproj -> D:\workspace\GEANT4\installg4\install\MSVC\B1-build\RelWithDebInfo\exampleB1.exe
Building Custom Rule D:/Geant4/11.3.1/share/Geant4/examples/basic/B1/CMakeLists.txt
```
To run exaple use command:
```RelWithDebInfo\exampleB1.exe run1.mac```
```RelWithDebInfo\exampleB1.exe exampleB1.in```
You will see the output like below:
```
**************************************************************
Geant4 version Name: geant4-11-01-ref-04 [MT] (30-April-2023)
Geant4 version Name: geant4-11-03-patch-01 [MT] (21-March-2025)
<< in Multi-threaded mode >>
Copyright : Geant4 Collaboration
References : NIM A 506 (2003), 250-303
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: NIM A 835 (2016), 186-225
WWW : http://geant4.org/
**************************************************************
<<< Reference Physics List QBBC
...
<snip>
...
================== Deleting memory pools ===================
Pool ID 'class G4NavigationLevelRep', size : 0.00288 MB
Pool ID 'class G4ReferenceCountedHandle<void>', size : 0.000961 MB
Pool ID 'class G4DynamicParticle', size : 0.000961 MB
Pool ID 'class G4SmartVoxelNode', size : 0.000961 MB
Pool ID 'class G4SmartVoxelProxy', size : 0.000961 MB
Pool ID 'class G4CountedObject<void>', size : 0.000961 MB
Number of memory pools allocated: 6; of which, static: 0
Dynamic pools deleted: 6 / Total memory freed: 0.0077 MB
============================================================
G4Allocator objects are deleted.
UImanager deleted.
StateManager deleted.
RunManagerKernel is deleted. Good bye :)
RunManager is deleted.
--------------------End of Global Run-----------------------
The run consists of 1000
Cumulated dose per run, in scoring volume : 5.38591 nanoGy rms = 144.936 picoGy
------------------------------------------------------------
Graphics systems deleted.
Visualization Manager deleting...
```
Check you have no crash and errors in aoutput.
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### 4. Test ROOT Installation
Example of root v6.26/02.
Setup root environment if not yet done:
```
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```
D:\workspace>root
------------------------------------------------------------------
| Welcome to ROOT 6.26/02 https://root.cern |
| (c) 1995-2021, The ROOT Team; conception: R. Brun, F. Rademakers |
| Built for win64 on Apr 12 2022, 16:28:03 |
| From tags/v6-26-02@v6-26-02 |
| With MSVC 19.31.31104.0 |
| Try '.help', '.demo', '.license', '.credits', '.quit'/'.q' |
| Welcome to ROOT 6.34.06 https://root.cern |
| (c) 1995-2024, The ROOT Team; conception: R. Brun, F. Rademakers |
| Built for win64 on Mar 27 2025, 04:54:19 |
| From tags/v6-34-06@v6-34-06 |
| With MSVC 19.39.33521.0 |
| Try '.help'/'.?', '.demo', '.license', '.credits', '.quit'/'.q' |
------------------------------------------------------------------
root [0]
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