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From: FX (fxcoudert_at_gmail.com)
Date: Sun Apr 08 2012 - 12:03:42 CDT

Dear all,

I have trouble building VMD on Mac OS 10.7.3. I'm running a 32-bit build, using a suitable 32-bit FLTK library installation (freshly compiled from 1.3.0 sources). I built the plugins (32-bit again) and then configured VMD with:

> ./configure MACOSXX86 FLTKOPENGL FLTK TK TCL SILENT PTHREADS

>From the default configure line, it's missing: IMD VRPN LIBSBALL LIBTACHYON ACTC NETCDF CUDA, because I don't have those libraries around. So it should be missing some functionality, of course, but the basics should still work.

After editing the Makefile to give the paths to my FLTK and plugins, I had to edit the linking command to include "-framework AppKit". I get a binary, but it doesn't want to run due to:

> 2012-04-08 19:02:07.996 vmd_MACOSXX86[33665:c03] *** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInvalidArgumentException', reason: '-[NSApplication _setup:]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x6d4057d0'
> *** Call stack at first throw:
> (
> 0 CoreFoundation 0x97cc3b67 __raiseError + 231
> 1 libobjc.A.dylib 0x996de149 objc_exception_throw + 155
> 2 CoreFoundation 0x97cc7170 -[NSObject doesNotRecognizeSelector:] + 256
> 3 CoreFoundation 0x97c15da9 ___forwarding___ + 457
> 4 CoreFoundation 0x97c15b72 _CF_forwarding_prep_0 + 50
> 5 Tk 0x0050bc8c TkpInit + 619
> 6 Tk 0x0047ca28 Tk_PkgInitStubsCheck + 2284
> 7 vmd_MACOSXX86 0x001d6999 _ZN13TclTextInterpC2EP6VMDAppi + 501
> 8 vmd_MACOSXX86 0x0018ed58 _ZN6UITextC2EP6VMDAppi + 148
> 9 vmd_MACOSXX86 0x00198d69 _ZN6VMDApp7VMDinitEiPPcPKcPiS4_ + 973
> 10 vmd_MACOSXX86 0x001b5312 main + 148
> 11 vmd_MACOSXX86 0x000cd085 start + 53
> )

Does anyone know if I'm missing something obvious? Is this bug known, and how can I work around it and build a working VMD binary to test my patches?

Thanks,
FX