From: Axel Kohlmeyer (akohlmey_at_cmm.chem.upenn.edu)
Date: Fri Jun 27 2008 - 14:23:44 CDT

On Fri, 27 Jun 2008, Marylou Kunkle wrote:

MK> Okay, so ... as an update to this, and I apologize for the incredible amount
MK> of vague before...
MK>
MK> When I try to compile the plugins, it does this:
MK>
MK> dhcp168a:plugins mkunkle$ make MACOSXX86
MK> Building Molecule File Reader plugins
MK>
MK> ...and then it quits. says nothing else. obviously it's not doing ...
MK> something. but I don't know what. what am I missing?

if you look at the beginning of both Makefile
and molfile_plugin/Makefile you'll see a
'.SILENT' statement. if you comment those out
you'll see the individual commands that are
executed and where it stops.

in general, unless you have your machine set up
exactly like john does it for the release builds,
you have to adapt Make-arch to your installation.

(i'm not even doing this, but have a bunch of
shell scripts instead, so i don't have to resolve
and conflicts from running 'cvs update', but this
is getting too far.)

cheers,
   axel.

MK>
MK> Thanks,
MK> --Marylou
MK>
MK> Marylou Kunkle wrote:
MK> > I am trying to compile VMD from source on Mac OS X 10.5.
MK> >
MK> > I am kind of new to Mac in general - just for a warning. However, I have
MK> > read all the documentation a million times over, but I can't seem to get
MK> > these libraries to compile or ... perhaps they're all in the wrong place.
MK> > Either way, it yells at me that the plugins are not compiled and copied to
MK> > 'distrib'. The plugins won't compile because of a number of things, I'm
MK> > sure. I keep getting the error about it being unable to find -lnetcdf ...
MK> > I don't know how to fix it. I have unsuccessfully tried to set the
MK> > PLUGINDIR env. variable. Or I have set it, and that's not what is wrong at
MK> > all .. I am not sure.
MK> >
MK> > I started by downloading and installing gcc and a whole bunch of
MK> > libraries: fltk, opengl, tcl, and now i downloaded netcdf but i don't know
MK> > what to do with the files it gave me. Then I tried a number of crazy
MK> > things to try to get things to compile, but truthfully, I don't know what
MK> > I'm doing.
MK> >
MK> > Why am I trying to compile from source on a Mac? Because we added some
MK> > stuff to VMD and I am trying to port our version of this program to Mac
MK> > and Windows. Just in case there's any confusion as to why I am putting
MK> > myself through all this. :)
MK> >
MK> > Can anyone give me a nice step-by-step tutorial of where to start? I guess
MK> > what is on the website really isn't detailed enough for me.
MK> >
MK> > Thank you,
MK> >
MK> > Marylou
MK>
MK>

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