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From: David Joiner (djoiner_at_kean.edu)
Date: Sat Feb 19 2011 - 00:07:25 CST

MSVC 2010 wouldn't open the 2006 project file, so I tried to make
similar modifications to the Makefile as used for the WIN32 options in
the Makefile for plugins.

Everything is compiling to object code w/out errors, but I am getting
the following errors when linking (I get hundreds of these with each
file). My guess is that there is some library I am not linking with
properly but I cannot tell which.

Dave

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Animation.o
Animation.o(1) : error C2018: unknown character '0x1'
Animation.o(1) : error C2018: unknown character '0x1b'
Animation.o(1) : error C2018: unknown character '0x19'
Animation.o(1) : error C2018: unknown character '0x1'
Animation.o(1) : error C2146: syntax error : missing ';' before
identifier 'aAY_M8'
Animation.o(1) : error C4430: missing type specifier - int assumed.
Note: C++ does not support default-int
Animation.o(1) : error C2143: syntax error : missing ';' before '.'
Animation.o(1) : error C4430: missing type specifier - int assumed.
Note: C++ does not support default-int

On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 11:19 PM, John Stone <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu> wrote:
>
> David,
>  Look at the "build.csh" script in the top level plugins directory,
> and you'll see how I do the Win32 plugin builds on our machines.
> You can't use cygwin-style paths when you set TCLINC etc, as you
> are calling the MSVC compilers, which only accept Dos/Windows pathnames...
>
> Cheers,
>  John
>
> On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 11:10:37PM -0500, David Joiner wrote:
>> I've done a checkout from CVS, set my environment to allow me to use
>> cl.exe from within a Cygwin bash shell, and ran "make WIN32" in the
>> plugins directory. After a few changes to hesstrans/src/include.h
>> (iostream instead of iostream.h, etc.), I am getting to the point
>> where I am trying to compile hesstrans, and get the error pasted
>> below. The error is that I cannot find tcl.h. I am setting TCLINC, and
>> have checked that the file is where I think it is. I've tried both -I
>> and /I and have moved everything to a location with no spaces in
>> directory names.
>>
>> -------
>>
>> bash-3.2$ make WIN32 TCLINC=" /I/cygdrive/c/VMD/Tcl/include "; ls
>> /cygdrive/c/VMD/Tcl/include
>> Building Molecule File Reader plugins
>> hesstrans_wrap.C
>> src/hesstrans_wrap.C(298) : fatal error C1083: Cannot open include
>> file: 'tcl.h': No such file or directory
>> make[2]: *** [../compile/lib_WIN32/tcl/hesstrans1.0/hesstrans_wrap.o] Error 2
>> make[1]: *** [dynlibs] Error 1
>> make: *** [WIN32] Error 2
>> X11         tclPlatDecls.h     tk.h              tkPlatDecls.h
>> tcl.h       tclTomMath.h       tkDecls.h         tommath_class.h
>> tclDecls.h  tclTomMathDecls.h  tkIntXlibDecls.h  tommath_superclass.h
>> bash-3.2$
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 4:29 PM, David Joiner <djoiner_at_kean.edu> wrote:
>> > OK, so I have Tcl and Tk built using MSVC++ 2010 express from the MSVC
>> > console window using nmake for Tcl, and nmake TCLDIR=(tcl build
>> > directory) for Tk. I've built FLTK in MSVC++ 2010 Express within the
>> > IDE and have been able to run the demo program to confirm that it
>> > runs.
>> >
>> > Using fltk-1.3.x-r8441 I had to modify the FL_Device.h file to change
>> > the definition "friend void gl_start()" to "friend FL_EXPORT void
>> > gl_start()" to avoid an error with mismatched definitions.
>> >
>> > Dave
>> >
>> > On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 1:29 PM, John Stone <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> David,
>> >>  You'll need to use MSVC to compile everything.  The cygwin tools will
>> >> be used during the compile of the VMD plugins, but only for "make", it will
>> >> actually _run_ the MSVC compilers and not GCC...
>> >>
>> >> Cheers,
>> >>  John
>> >>
>> >> On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 01:17:38PM -0500, David Joiner wrote:
>> >>>    I've compiled ball.exe w/ cavelib on my dev machine and ran it on the
>> >>>    cave. I had to copy the most recent msvcr dll files over, but otherwise
>> >>>    that worked with no hiccups.
>> >>>
>> >>>    I'll work on the dependencies next. Should I build them in msvc or.cygwin?
>> >>>
>> >>>    Thanks!
>> >>>    Dave
>> >>>
>> >>>      On Feb 18, 2011 12:57 PM, "John Stone" <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>>      David,
>> >>>       I would think that should be workable, although I'm only using
>> >>>      MSVS 2005 here, due to the need to link against various libraries.
>> >>>      For your puroses MSVS 2010 might work ok.  Before we get into it,
>> >>>      I assume for starters that you're able to compile and link CAVElib
>> >>>      demo apps using MSVS 2010, right?  Since your end-goal is to get
>> >>>      VMD running with the Windows CAVElib, I'd test to make sure that doesn't
>> >>>      have any issues with MSVS 2010 first.  If not, then the next thing is
>> >>>      to get your Tcl/Tk/FLTK builds for Windows going, as you need Tcl
>> >>>      to be compiled already before you can begin building the VMD plugins.
>> >>>      See if you can get those steps done first.
>> >>>
>> >>>      Cheers,
>> >>>       John
>> >>>
>> >>>      On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 08:57:13PM -0500, David Joiner wrote:
>> >>>      > Sounds fun.
>> >>>      >
>> >>>      > Right now I have b...
>> >>>
>> >>>      --
>> >>>
>> >>>      NIH Resource for Macromolecular Modeling and Bioinformatics
>> >>>      Beckman Institute for Advanced Science a...
>> >>
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>> >> NIH Resource for Macromolecular Modeling and Bioinformatics
>> >> Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
>> >> University of Illinois, 405 N. Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
>> >> Email: johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu                 Phone: 217-244-3349
>> >>  WWW: http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~johns/      Fax: 217-244-6078
>> >>
>> >
>
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> NIH Resource for Macromolecular Modeling and Bioinformatics
> Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
> University of Illinois, 405 N. Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
> Email: johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu                 Phone: 217-244-3349
>  WWW: http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~johns/      Fax: 217-244-6078
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