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From: Joshua A. Anderson (joaander_at_umich.edu)
Date: Tue Aug 24 2010 - 07:00:36 CDT

On Monday 23 August 2010 4:32:05 pm you wrote:
> I'm having trouble building VMD from source on OSX 10.6
>
> On one hand, I'm finding a large number of dependencies that I need to
> manually download, build and link into the VMD build system. I am
> guessing that I am missing something about how the build system is
> supposed to work?
>
> On the other hand, all the references I find are to OSX 10.2 and 10.3,
> so I'm wondering if there is up-to-date support for 10.6 building?
>
> - Steve

The biggest trouble I had building on 10.6 is that you need the svn trunk/
version of FLTK if you want to build it for x86_64. That and the configure
scripts for VMD are weird and take a lot of hacking to specify libraries from
a generic location (in my case, setting to /opt/loca/lib to build against
macports installed python & other libs).

- Josh