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From: Axel Kohlmeyer (akohlmey_at_gmail.com)
Date: Fri Apr 20 2012 - 20:19:43 CDT

On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 7:23 PM, Engelman, Joshua
<joshengelman_at_vistamarschool.org> wrote:
> Worked perfectly for me, after putting the .so in molfile and the .dll in
> the VMD install directory.  Thanks so much, I'm glad we were able to avoid
> that horrible punishment.

excellent! i've updated the plugin distribution on my homepage
now to include this and updated all binaries to the state of
VMD 1.9.1. Those can also be used to upgrade older VMD
versions, if for some reason you cannot update VMD itself.

http://sites.google.com/site/akohlmey/software/hoomd-plugin

cheers,
     axel.

>
> Josh
>
> On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 3:39 PM, Axel Kohlmeyer <akohlmey_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> guys,
>>
>> can you give the binaries in the attached tar archive a try?
>> this is a cross-compiled plugin and the .dll for the expat
>> library that was used.  john, can you make a recommendation
>> where the .dll file would have to go? in the VMD installation
>> directory? or the plugin directory?
>>
>> thanks,
>>     axel.
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 4:51 PM, John Stone <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >  There are no windows builds of the HOOMD plugin presently.  I haven't
>> > looked at what it would take to fix this, it might be easy, or it might
>> > be problematic.  The key issue is that the HOOMD plugin depends on some
>> > other XML parsing libraries, and they too have to be compiled and
>> > tested under Windows.
>> >
>> > In the short-term your best bet is to run VMD under Linux or MacOS X
>> > until the HOOMD plugin is available for the Windows versions of VMD.
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> >  John Stone
>> >  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>> >
>> > On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 01:35:52PM -0700, Engelman, Joshua wrote:
>> >>    I'm new to VMD and molecular dynamics in general, and generated some
>> >>    simulations using  HOOMD-Blue.  It outputs a .xml hoomd-file and
>> >> .dcd,
>> >>    which I've been able to successfully import on a macintosh.
>> >>  However,
>> >>    working from a PC with the same version of VMD (32 bit, 1.9.1), VMD
>> >> cannot
>> >>    recognize or import the filetype, despite being officially supported
>> >> since
>> >>    1.8.7.  There is currently no port of Kohlmeyer's plugin for
>> >> Windows, as
>> >>    far as I know.  Is there any way to fix this?  I have tried both
>> >> OpenGL
>> >>    and CUDA versions, on a machine that supports both, and neither
>> >> works.  Is
>> >>    there a way around this?
>> >>    Joshua E.
>> >>    University of Michigan
>> >
>> > --
>> > NIH Resource for Macromolecular Modeling and Bioinformatics
>> > Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
>> > University of Illinois, 405 N. Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
>> > http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~johns/           Phone: 217-244-3349
>> > http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/       Fax: 217-244-6078
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Dr. Axel Kohlmeyer
>> akohlmey_at_gmail.com  http://goo.gl/1wk0
>>
>> College of Science and Technology
>> Temple University, Philadelphia PA, USA.
>
> 

-- 
Dr. Axel Kohlmeyer
akohlmey_at_gmail.com  http://goo.gl/1wk0
College of Science and Technology
Temple University, Philadelphia PA, USA.