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From: Marylou Kunkle (marylou.kunkle_at_gmail.com)
Date: Fri Jun 27 2008 - 13:29:37 CDT

Okay, so ... as an update to this, and I apologize for the incredible
amount of vague before...

When I try to compile the plugins, it does this:

dhcp168a:plugins mkunkle$ make MACOSXX86
Building Molecule File Reader plugins

...and then it quits. says nothing else. obviously it's not doing ...
something. but I don't know what. what am I missing?

Thanks,
--Marylou

Marylou Kunkle wrote:
> 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