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From: Joshua Anderson (joaander_at_umich.edu)
Date: Thu Feb 04 2010 - 10:04:53 CST

Nevermind, I figured out a workaround. If I change the Fl::flush() to
Fl::wait(0) in vmd.C, then everything seems to works fine.

This appears to be caused by an issue in fltk and/or tk installed by
macports. For instance, if I load the "wish" tcl/tk app that macports
installed it also fails to respond to mouse events.

Given the compiler directives in vmd to swap between flush and
wait(0), it would seem that this has been a recurring problem with
various versions of tk and/or fltk.

Hopefully someone out there will find this information useful....

Josh

On Feb 3, 2010, at 4:55 PM, John Stone wrote:

> 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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