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From: H. Lee (hjunlee_at_gmail.com)
Date: Mon Apr 03 2017 - 10:11:43 CDT

Dear John Stone:

Thank you very much for your reply.
Yes, I want to modify one of molfile plugins, vaspchgcarplugin.c.
I have already modified, compiled, and copy it, as mentioned in this source
code as follows:

* MACOSX
00023 * c++ -O2 -Wall -I. -I$VMDBASEDIR/plugins/include -c vaspchgcarplugin.c
00024 * c++ -bundle -o vaspchgcarplugin.so vaspchgcarplugin.o
00025 *
00026 * Install
00027 * copy vaspchgcarplugin.so $VMDBASEDIR/plugins/$ARCH/molfile

However, this change has not been reflected in VMD.
It would be much appreciated if you could give me more assistance.

Sincerely,

H. Lee

On Mon, Apr 3, 2017 at 4:47 PM, John Stone <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu> wrote:

> What plugin(s) are you trying to modify? If you're talking about
> compiled molfile plugins, you must ensure that you have updated the
> major/minor version numbers of the plugin if you want to have your
> plugin supercede one of the plugins that's already included with VMD.
> If you tell us more specifically what you're doing we can give more
> assistance.
>
> Cheers,
> John Stone
> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
> On Sat, Apr 01, 2017 at 03:28:11PM +0200, H. Lee wrote:
> > Dear developers:
> > I am using VMD in MACOS X in the form of the pre-complied binary from
> the
> > VMD website (dmg file).
> > I want to modify some plugin included in VMD, but I fail to do it;
> even if
> > I modify, compile and link dynamically, it is not reflected in VMD.
> > I think that the pre-compiled binary in MAC includes the static
> library
> > for plugins.
> > How can I use the modified plugins in MACOS X?
> > Sincerely,
> > Hyungjun Lee
>
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