Nuclear Data Section (NDS)
             Department of Nuclear Sciences and Applications
                International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
                Vienna International Centre, P.O. Box 100,
                        A-1400 Vienna, Austria
                Tel:(+43 1) 2600-21717; Fax:(+43 1) 26007
  
       WORKING MATERIALS TO FOLLOW THE IAEA EMPIRE WORKSHOP DECEMBER 2013
         https://www-nds.iaea.org/index-meeting-crp/EmpireWorkshop2013/
  
                   "Portable EMPIRE-3.2.3 for Windows"
              Prepared by Viktor Zerkin, IAEA-NDS, 2013-2017
                 Experimental version for MS-Windows-64
                 Last modified: 2017-11-03 by V.Zerkin
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Attention! Not all menu options in GUI are active.
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CONTENT
 The distribution includes portable versions for MS-Windows of:
 1) Empire-3.2 package: http://www.nndc.bnl.gov/empire/main.html
    - Empire-3.2.3 (Malta), Rev.5027 (2017-11-02)
    - with executables for Windows-64 prepared using gfortran (tdm64-2) 4.8.1
    - and data from EXFOR (as of 2017-11-01)
 2) MinGW-4.8.1 with GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.8.1 (32-bit)
 3) TDM-GCC-64 GNU Fortran (tdm64-2) 4.8.1 (64,32-bit)
 4) Tcl/Tk 8.4.2 (Binaries for Windows prepared by V.Zerkin, 2017-01-23)
 5) Python 2.7.6
 6) Postscript viewer: GSView 2.6 + Ghostscript 5.50
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LICENSES
For third party software, please see the README, "license.terms" files that 
come in the associated directories.
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STARTUP
 1) Download file "Empire323zv2win64.zip" from Internet:
    https://www-nds.iaea.org/cdroms/#EMPIRE-3.2.3
 2) Unzip file "Empire323zv2win64.zip" to HD disk, e.g. to C:\Empire323zv2win64
    (required free space on HD disk: ~4Gb)
 3) start run-empire.bat
Note.
 No installation is needed; no configuration.
 All software is pre-configured and ready to run.
 This package can be run from a DVD-ROM (D:\Empire323zv2win64\run-empire.bat).
 However, it is strongly recommended to run EMPIRE from the hard disk. 
Important!
 Please, do NOT use blank (space) symbol neither in your directory names
 nor in your files and project names.
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SETUP
 1) By default, working directory is defined as c:\wrk
    In order to change this, start run-empire.bat with one parameter, e.g.
	C:\Empire323zv2win64\run-empire.bat f:\wrk
    or edit run-empire.bat replacing "c:\wrk" by "f:\wrk"
 2) When running first time, script run-empire.bat will copy file 
    EMPIRE-3.2.3-5027\test-cases\pd105.inp to working directory.
    This file can be used as input file for testing setup of Empire package.
 3) If you wish to setup Empire running from your Desktop:
	a) click: Computer -> C: -> Empire323zv2win64
	b) right-click on run-empire.bat -->
	c) Send to: Desktop (create shortcut)
	d) Change icon on the created shortcut to Empire323zv2win64\empire.ico
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QUICK TEST:
 1. Go to C:\Empire323zv2win64\quick-test
 2. start runme.bat
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WORK ON YOUR EMPIRE PROJECT.
 Having EMPIRE with GUI Interface running on Windows you can work with it
 in the same way as you would do in any other system (Linux, Mac-OSX):
 see short description of EMPIRE package in EMPIRE-3.2.3-5027/README.TXT,
 documentation and manual in EMPIRE-3.2.3-5027/doc/. 
 You can send your feedback, suggestions, wishes to EMPIRE to 
 R.CapoteNoy@iaea.org, MWHerman@bnl.gov
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Please report any difficulties with "Portable Empire for Windows"
(both setup problems and runtime errors) to V.Zerkin@iaea.org


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         ALL PRODUCTS ON THIS DVD-ROM ARE PROVIDED IN GOOD FAITH AND 
                    WITHOUT A WARRANTY OF ANY KIND.