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From: Axel Kohlmeyer (akohlmey_at_gmail.com)
Date: Fri Jun 04 2010 - 13:11:08 CDT

did you do "make distrib" with ARCH and PLUGINDIR set to the proper directories?
it looks almost as if the (molfile) plugin headers are not available.
the compiler silently
tries to compile anyway, but fails miserably.

cheers,
   axel.

On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 12:36 PM, Reid Van Lehn <rvanlehn_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm having an issue compiling from source on Mac OS X. I was able to
> successfully make the plugins directory using the instructions on the
> website. I next configure a bare-bones installation using:
>
> MACOSX OPENGL FLTK TK NETCDF TCL SILENT
>
> as my flags. I have the FLTK, Tcl/Tk and NetCDF packages installed in
> /vmd/lib, mimicking the set ups in the plugins/build.csh file.
>
> However, when I run 'gmake' in the /vmd/src directory, make fails with a
> number of errors in MolFilePlugin.c:
>
> ***********
>
> Compiling  MoleculeGraphics.C  -->  MoleculeGraphics.o  ...
> Compiling  MolFilePlugin.c  -->  MolFilePlugin.o  ...
> In file included from MolFilePlugin.c:31:
> MolFilePlugin.h:30: error: syntax error before ‘Molecule’
> MolFilePlugin.h:30: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
> MolFilePlugin.h:31: error: syntax error before ‘Timestep’
> MolFilePlugin.h:31: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
> MolFilePlugin.h:32: error: syntax error before ‘AtomSel’
> MolFilePlugin.h:32: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
> MolFilePlugin.h:33: error: syntax error before ‘Scene’
> MolFilePlugin.h:33: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
> MolFilePlugin.h:34: error: syntax error before ‘QMData’
> MolFilePlugin.h:34: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
> In file included from MolFilePlugin.c:31:
> MolFilePlugin.h:42: error: syntax error before ‘MolFilePlugin’
>
> plus many more, also in files utilities.h, Matrix4.h, QMData.h, and more
>
> *************
>
> Looking at the errors, it seems like a lot of the C++ keywords aren't being
> recognized, and the origin of the errors are all tied to the
> MolFilePlugin.c/.h and Molecule.h files. I've also tried following the
> directions from http://www.debianclusters.org/index.php/NAMD:_Building_vmd
> with the same results.
>
> Does anyone have an idea of what may be wrong? I can send more information
> as needed.
>
> Thank you!
> Reid Van Lehn
> 

-- 
Dr. Axel Kohlmeyer    akohlmey_at_gmail.com
http://sites.google.com/site/akohlmey/
Institute for Computational Molecular Science
Temple University, Philadelphia PA, USA.