CORSIKA Tarballs

Getting the source code

The CORSIKA code IceSim supports can currently (9/15/15) be obtained from: http://code.icecube.wisc.edu/tools/distfiles/corsika/

Untar and unzip:

change directory to the newly create corsika installation dir:

The binary is created after corsika options have been configured. To configure run the “coconut” executible in expert mode as follows:

The expert flag allows you to select the date and time routine manually. The default option is for the “coconut” script to detect it automatically and set it accordingly. The problem is that the automatic detection does not always work. When you get to the following screen:

select option 4 - timerc routine. This date/time routine has been tested to work on cobalt.

If the date/time is routine is not the right one, at the very end, when a final binary is being compiled, CORSIKA will return an error such as:

Naming the binary

Generating the config file