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From: Wesley Smith (wesley.hoke_at_gmail.com)
Date: Thu Jan 24 2008 - 22:56:03 CST

I have VS7 and VS8. I was trying with VS7. That explains some of the
issues. I do have cygwin but when I tried to make, I got an error
about a missing cl.exe. Where is that supposed to come from?

Also, in the vms1.8.6 source, I see the msvc folder, but nothing is in
it. In particular, there is not vs2005 folder.
thanks,
wes

On Jan 24, 2008 8:45 PM, John Stone <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu> wrote:
>
> Wes,
> Which version of MSVC or MSVS are you running? There are two
> different sets of VMD projects files for windows. The "msvc/winvmd"
> project area is meant only for MSVC 6.x, and it will not necessarily
> load into newer revs of MSVS. The other "msvc/vs2005" area should
> work with the most recent revs of MSVS. They load fine for me, so
> I'm not sure why you'd be having trouble. The VMD plugins aren't
> compiled using MS projects, and are instead built using the cygwin
> tools, so that may be a point of confusion for you. You will need to
> install the cygwin tools before you build the plugins, and the plugins
> must be built prior to compiling VMD itself. Let me know if you need
> help getting your compilation environment bootstrapped. Building on
> Windows is a little more involved than on the Unix-based platforms.
>
> Cheers,
> John Stone
> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 08:18:09PM -0800, Wesley Smith wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I was attempting a Windows build of some VMD mods I had previously
> > made on OSX, but I didn't get very far. It seems the VMD 1.8.6 source
> > download is missing the project files for MSVC in the main vmd source
> > folder and has a corrupt workspace file in the MSVC plugins folder.
> > Any chance of getting these files?
> >
> > thanks,
> > wes
>
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