Download page for McStas

Below, the distribution packages for McStas may be downloaded. Details and important information about each release may be found here. Please, also read the conditions of use for McStas. For other user contributions, minor fixes to individual files, please see our share download section. McStas is available in source code form for Unix-like systems, as well as precompiled versions for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. The new version has been tested on a variety of platforms, but should compile also for most other Unix systems. An ANSI-C compiler is required; GCC works well. In case of difficulties, contact the McStas administrator so that the problems may be solved in the next version.

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Here is the CHANGES file from the current stable release. Additional 'support applications' should be installed before installing McStas.

Ubuntu users: Please use the .deb package below

If you would like to try out McStas without installing it, try out our McStas Ubuntu live-dvd (not yet updated to McStas 2.0!)

Current release (mcstas-2.0)

Filename	Size (kByte)	Date	Checksum
mcstas-2.0-win64.zip	9535	Fri Dec 21 18:21:15 2012	md5
mcstas-2.0-win32.zip	9514	Fri Dec 21 18:21:15 2012	md5
mcstas-2.0-src-win.zip	11259	Fri Dec 21 18:21:15 2012	md5
mcstas-2.0-src-unix.tar.gz	11286	Fri Dec 21 18:21:15 2012	md5
mcstas-2.0-rpm-64.tar.gz	13351	Fri Dec 21 18:21:14 2012	md5
mcstas-2.0-rpm-32.tar.gz	12029	Fri Dec 21 18:21:14 2012	md5
mcstas-2.0-deb-64.tar.gz	11064	Fri Dec 21 18:21:14 2012	md5
mcstas-2.0-deb-32.tar.gz	11054	Fri Dec 21 18:21:14 2012	md5
mcstas-2.0-10.8_Mountain_Lion.tar.gz	35993	Fri Dec 21 18:21:13 2012	md5
mcstas-2.0-10.7_Lion.tar.gz	34150	Fri Dec 21 18:21:13 2012	md5
mcstas-2.0-10.6_Snow_Leopard.tar.gz	44101	Fri Dec 21 18:21:11 2012	md5

For the SVN version (development version) go to the SVN

Older releases

Filename	Size (kByte)	Date	Checksum
mcstas-1.9.1-src.tar.gz	9863	Wed Mar 29 15:34:53 2006	md5
mcstas-1.9.1-i686-Intel-Win32.zip	10338	Wed Mar 29 15:34:52 2006	md5
mcstas-1.9.1-i686-Intel-Linux.tar.gz	10062	Wed Mar 29 15:34:51 2006	md5
mcstas-1.9-src.tar.gz	8696	Wed Nov 16 15:47:03 2005	md5
mcstas-1.9-i686-Intel-Win32.zip	9145	Wed Nov 16 15:47:00 2005	md5
mcstas-1.9-i686-Intel-Linux.tar.gz	8956	Wed Nov 16 15:46:58 2005	md5
mcstas-1.8-src.tar.gz	5659	Tue Jun 22 14:04:22 2004	md5
mcstas-1.8-i686-Intel-Win32.zip	5823	Tue Jun 22 14:04:20 2004	md5
mcstas-1.8-i686-Intel-Linux.tar.gz	5880	Tue Jun 22 14:04:18 2004	md5
mcstas-1.8-Win32-src.tar.gz	5480	Tue Jun 22 14:04:17 2004	md5
mcstas-1.7-src.tar.gz	4892	Tue Jun 22 14:04:14 2004	md5
mcstas-1.7-i686-unknown-Win32.zip	5103	Tue Jun 22 14:04:15 2004	md5
mcstas-1.7-i686-unknown-Linux.tar.gz	5086	Tue Jun 22 14:04:14 2004	md5
mcstas-1.12c-x86_64-Intel-Linux.tar.gz	29835	Fri Jun 3 20:50:00 2011	md5
mcstas-1.12c-src.tar.gz	29424	Fri Jun 3 20:49:56 2011	md5
mcstas-1.12c-i386.deb	13073	Fri Jun 3 20:49:32 2011	md5
mcstas-1.12c-amd64.deb	13089	Fri Jun 3 20:49:30 2011	md5
mcstas-1.12b-x86_64-Intel-Linux.tar.gz	26488	Thu Jul 15 11:33:14 2010	md5
mcstas-1.12b-src.tar.gz	26077	Thu Jul 15 11:33:13 2010	md5
mcstas-1.12b-i386.deb	13078	Thu Jul 15 11:33:13 2010	md5
mcstas-1.12b-amd64.deb	13091	Thu Jul 15 11:33:12 2010	md5
mcstas-1.12a-src.tar.gz	24879	Thu Apr 2 23:22:02 2009	md5
mcstas-1.12a-i686.deb	12591	Thu Apr 2 23:22:01 2009	md5
mcstas-1.12a-i686-Intel-Linux.tar.gz	25241	Thu Apr 2 23:21:58 2009	md5
mcstas-1.12-src.tar.gz	23750	Thu May 8 12:08:48 2008	md5
mcstas-1.12-i686.deb	11434	Thu May 8 12:08:47 2008	md5
mcstas-1.12-i686-Intel-Linux.tar.gz	24097	Thu May 8 12:08:44 2008	md5
mcstas-1.11-src.tar.gz	15017	Tue Jul 3 12:28:45 2007	md5
mcstas-1.11-i686.deb	12575	Tue Jul 3 12:28:39 2007	md5
mcstas-1.11-i686-Intel-Linux.tar.gz	15358	Tue Jul 3 12:28:33 2007	md5
mcstas-1.10-src.tar.gz	11742	Fri Dec 8 15:24:44 2006	md5
mcstas-1.10-i686-Intel-Win32.zip	12332	Fri Dec 8 15:24:43 2006	md5
mcstas-1.10-i686-Intel-Linux.tar.gz	12115	Fri Dec 8 15:24:42 2006	md5
McStas-1.12c-i686-Win32.exe	70319	Fri Jun 3 20:49:33 2011	md5
McStas-1.12c-OSX.dmg	125829	Fri Jun 3 20:49:42 2011	md5
McStas-1.12c-OSX-MountainLion-respin.dmg	125829	Fri Dec 21 18:21:07 2012	md5
McStas-1.12c-OSX-Lion-respin.dmg	125829	Mon Mar 12 13:50:30 2012	md5
McStas-1.12b-i686-Win32.exe	66781	Thu Jul 15 11:33:21 2010	md5
McStas-1.12b-OSX.dmg	125829	Thu Jul 15 16:34:24 2010	md5
McStas-1.12a-i686-Win32.exe	65825	Thu Apr 2 23:21:46 2009	md5
McStas-1.12a-OSX.dmg	125829	Thu Apr 2 23:35:38 2009	md5
McStas-1.12-i686-Win32.exe	64710	Thu May 8 12:08:37 2008	md5
McStas-1.12-OSX.dmg	125829	Thu Jun 12 12:31:29 2008	md5
McStas-1.11-i686-Win32.exe	49253	Tue Jul 3 12:28:22 2007	md5
McStas-1.11-OSX.dmg	94095	Tue Jul 3 12:27:55 2007	md5
McStas-1.10-i686-Win32.exe	49255	Fri Dec 8 15:24:38 2006	md5