VMD-L Mailing List

From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Wed Feb 03 2010 - 15:55:51 CST

Hi,
  Do you have a copy of vmdmac.r in your vmd/src/ directory?
The resource compiler is looking for it there, but seems not
to be finding it in your case. I've attached a copy of it
to this email.

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 04:39:52PM -0500, Joshua Anderson wrote:
> I'm attempting to create a build of VMD on my mac linked with a
> specific python I have installed (via macports if you must know, not
> that it matters). The system is a recent intel iMac running Mac OS X
> 10.5.8.
>
> The configuration I'm using to build is:
> MACOSXX86 FLTKOPENGL FLTK TK CUDA IMD LIBTACHYON NETCDF TCL PYTHON
> PTHREADS NUMPY SILENT
>
> I've navigated the VMD compiling docs, built the plugins without
> problems, modified the configure scripts to point to the macports
> libraries and am now compiling vmd proper. Everything compiles, but I
> get the following errors in the linking phase.
>
> $ make
> Linking vmd_MACOSXX86 ...
> ln: ./foobar: File exists
> failed to find vmdmac/vmdmac.r
> ### /Developer/Tools/Rez - SysError 0 during open of "vmdmac.r".
> Fatal Error!
> ### /Developer/Tools/Rez - Fatal Error, can't recover.
> vmdmac.r: ### /Developer/Tools/Rez - Since errors occurred, ../
> MACOSXX86/vmd_MACOSXX86's resource fork was not written.
> make: *** [vmd_MACOSXX86] Error 3
>
> The vmdmac.r file does not show up in the source tarball. I found this
> ancient post regarding it:
> http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/mailing_list/vmd-l/0678.html . If I
> use the vmdmac.r file from that post, vmd does compiles and link
> successfully, but I still have problems at that point.
>
> I then make install VMD to a test dir to try it out. Running bin/vmd
> errors out with vmd_MACOSX not existing. OK, update that to MACOSXX86,
> run bin/vmd again and VMD loads, but the menus, opengl display, etc...
> do not respond to any mouse clicks. I can quit by typing quit in the
> terminal window I used to launch it, though.
>
> Any ideas what am I doing wrong?
>
> I don't think the problem is due to any library mismatching. I've
> triple checked that all include and library directories are pointing
> to Tcl, Tk, and FLTK installed by macports. otool confirms that all
> those libraries are linked from macports (/opt/local/*)
> $ otool -L vmd_MACOSXX86
> vmd_MACOSXX86:
> /usr/lib/libmx.A.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version
> 292.4.0)
> /System/Library/Frameworks/OpenGL.framework/Versions/A/OpenGL
> (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1.0.0)
> /System/Library/Frameworks/AGL.framework/Versions/A/AGL
> (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1.0.0)
> @rpath/libcudart.dylib (compatibility version 1.1.0, current version
> 3.0.0)
> /opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/Python
> (compatibility version 2.6.0, current version 2.6.0)
> /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current
> version 111.1.4)
> /opt/local/lib/libtk8.5.dylib (compatibility version 8.5.0, current
> version 8.5.8)
> /opt/local/lib/libtcl8.5.dylib (compatibility version 8.5.0, current
> version 8.5.8)
> /opt/local/lib/libnetcdf.4.dylib (compatibility version 5.0.0,
> current version 5.0.0)
> /System/Library/Frameworks/Carbon.framework/Versions/A/Carbon
> (compatibility version 2.0.0, current version 136.0.0)
> /usr/lib/libstdc++.6.dylib (compatibility version 7.0.0, current
> version 7.4.0)
> /usr/lib/libgcc_s.1.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current
> version 1.0.0)
> /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/
> CoreServices (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 32.0.0)
> /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreFoundation.framework/Versions/A/
> CoreFoundation (compatibility version 150.0.0, current version 476.19.0)
> /System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Versions/A/
> ApplicationServices (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version
> 34.0.0)
>
> --------
> Joshua A. Anderson, Ph.D.
> Chemical Engineering Department, University of Michigan 

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