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Welcome to the McCode wiki!

General information

• How McStas/McXtrace works overview
• Known issues and FAQ's
• Access to the code tree

Migrating from McStas 2.x to 3.x

• Overview of differences in McStas 2.x and 3.x
• McStas 3 and GPU terminology (table)
• HOWTO: Modifying a McStas 2 instrument for use under McStas 3
• HOWTO: Modifying a McStas 2 component for use under McStas 3

Developer guides

• Developer literature
• Building McStas/McXtrace
• Builds and platforms overview
• Release procedure/notes
• UI test checklist
• How to use Eclipse with PyDev
• Debugging the c-code
• Variables and Scopes

For users & comp developers

• McStas tutorial: simplified SANS instrument
• Writing Components
• Generating input-files for Single_crystal and PowderN
• Generate Vitess modules via mcstas2vitess
• HOWTO: McXtrace reflectivity files

Interlinks with other software

• McStas and Mantid
• How to update the MCPL shipped with McStas/McXtrace (McStas and MCNP/Geant4/SIMRES/...)
• MCPL-related issue on Ubuntu 17.04 (McStas and MCNP/Geant4/SIMRES/...)

Documentation on the McCode tools

• User documentation for the 2017- Python tool set'
• mcrun variants - table overview
• mcplot variants - table overview
• mcdisplay variants - table overview

Guides for McWeb (e-neutrons.org simulator and more)

• https://github.com/McStasMcXtrace/McWeb/wiki