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From: Marylou Kunkle (marylou.kunkle_at_gmail.com)
Date: Fri Jun 27 2008 - 11:12:37 CDT

I am trying to compile VMD from source on Mac OS X 10.5.

I am kind of new to Mac in general - just for a warning. However, I have
read all the documentation a million times over, but I can't seem to get
these libraries to compile or ... perhaps they're all in the wrong place.
Either way, it yells at me that the plugins are not compiled and copied to
'distrib'. The plugins won't compile because of a number of things, I'm
sure. I keep getting the error about it being unable to find -lnetcdf ... I
don't know how to fix it. I have unsuccessfully tried to set the PLUGINDIR
env. variable. Or I have set it, and that's not what is wrong at all .. I am
not sure.

I started by downloading and installing gcc and a whole bunch of libraries:
fltk, opengl, tcl, and now i downloaded netcdf but i don't know what to do
with the files it gave me. Then I tried a number of crazy things to try to
get things to compile, but truthfully, I don't know what I'm doing.

Why am I trying to compile from source on a Mac? Because we added some stuff
to VMD and I am trying to port our version of this program to Mac and
Windows. Just in case there's any confusion as to why I am putting myself
through all this. :)

Can anyone give me a nice step-by-step tutorial of where to start? I guess
what is on the website really isn't detailed enough for me.

Thank you,

Marylou