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From: B. Bennion (bbennion_at_u.washington.edu)
Date: Tue Jan 28 2003 - 10:09:33 CST

Hi Lubos,

I have had this little problem before. You need to get the source code
for the plugins as well if you are doing a fresh compile of VMD

As you said the CVS is probably the best place to get the plugin header
files.

Regards
Brian

On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Lubos Vrbka wrote:

> Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 11:54:00 +0100
> From: Lubos Vrbka <shnek_at_chemi.muni.cz>
> To: vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu
> Subject: compiling vmd...
>
> hi, i'm trying to compile vmd-1.8 for my platform (NetBSD). the linux
> binary distribution with Mesa works fine under emulation, but i think
> real hardware acceleration would be better (and unfortunately, opengl
> binary doesn't work :o( )
>
> there's problem in the beginning of the compilation - there are probably
> some header files missing... :o( at least vmdplugin.h is required but
> not present (within the whole vmd-1.8 tree)
>
> where could i get the complete source (this source is downloaded from
> the download page)? probably CVS could help... anyway, the distribution
> file should probably be modified/fixed...
>
> configure options are
> LINUX OPENGL TK IMD TCL GCC
>
> the error is as follows:
> echo "Compiling " AtomSel.C " --> " AtomSel.o " ..."; g++ -Wall -O9
> -march=i586 -fomit-frame-pointer -finline-functions
> -fexpensive-optimizations -fcaller-saves -fthread-jumps
> -fstrength-reduce -DARCH_LINUX -DVMDSURF -DVMDMSMS -DVMDISOSURFACE
> -DVMDSTATICPLUGINS -I../plugins/include -I../plugins/LINUX/molfile -I.
> -c AtomSel.C -o ../LINUX/AtomSel.o
> Compiling AtomSel.C --> AtomSel.o ...
> In file included from VMDApp.h:8,
> from AtomSel.C:35:
> PluginMgr.h:13: vmdplugin.h: No such file or directory
> In file included from AtomSel.C:35:
> VMDApp.h:39: vmdplugin.h: No such file or directory
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop.
> make: stopped in /traj1/shnek/vmd-1.8/src
>
> anyone has seen this problem?
>
> regards,
> lubos
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> Masaryk university, Brno, Czech Republic
>
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