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From: Wesley Smith (wesley.hoke_at_gmail.com)
Date: Thu Jan 24 2008 - 23:25:14 CST

On Jan 24, 2008 9:10 PM, John Stone <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu> wrote:
>
> Wes,
> If you don't need anything other than VMD's plugin system, then really
> you don't need to compile VMD at all, and you can simply make a Lua binding
> for the VMD plugins themselves.
>

How would I do this? I want to keep the Molecule and Volume files in
the VMD source as well as the Plugin Manager class. I don't remember
exactly right now, but there seemed to be a whole setup and series of
dependencies such that I had found it easier to just bind the VMDApp
so that all of the details were taken care of for me. I had alot of
trouble building an OSX debug app (as noted in an earlier thread) so I
didn't get a chance to trace through the code paths with the debugger
to see what was really involved.

Thanks for the MS tips. I'll see what I can figure out. I'm not so
familiar with the MSVC/Cygwin combo.
best,
wes

> The "cl.exe" is actually the Microsoft compiler. In order for Cygwin
> to find it, you have to have setup the MS compilers in the default path.
> When one installs the MS tools, they typically provide a batch file that
> one can run that sets up all of the environment variables so that you
> can run the MS compilers from command line either with MS's own "nmake"
> or from 3rd party compilation tools, IDEs, etc. You'll need to get your
> MS compilers setup this way in order to build the plugins from source
> using our standard Makefile based builds.
>
> For the MSVC build areas you'll want to use CVS and not the tar archive
> of the source tree, as it's not included in the tar archives. If you
> were working with the tar archive, that would explain the other half of
> the issues you asked about.
>
> Cheers,
> John Stone
> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 08:56:03PM -0800, Wesley Smith wrote:
> > I have VS7 and VS8. I was trying with VS7. That explains some of the
> > issues. I do have cygwin but when I tried to make, I got an error
> > about a missing cl.exe. Where is that supposed to come from?
> >
> > Also, in the vms1.8.6 source, I see the msvc folder, but nothing is in
> > it. In particular, there is not vs2005 folder.
> > thanks,
> > wes
> >
> > On Jan 24, 2008 8:45 PM, John Stone <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu> wrote:
> > >
> > > Wes,
> > > Which version of MSVC or MSVS are you running? There are two
> > > different sets of VMD projects files for windows. The "msvc/winvmd"
> > > project area is meant only for MSVC 6.x, and it will not necessarily
> > > load into newer revs of MSVS. The other "msvc/vs2005" area should
> > > work with the most recent revs of MSVS. They load fine for me, so
> > > I'm not sure why you'd be having trouble. The VMD plugins aren't
> > > compiled using MS projects, and are instead built using the cygwin
> > > tools, so that may be a point of confusion for you. You will need to
> > > install the cygwin tools before you build the plugins, and the plugins
> > > must be built prior to compiling VMD itself. Let me know if you need
> > > help getting your compilation environment bootstrapped. Building on
> > > Windows is a little more involved than on the Unix-based platforms.
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > John Stone
> > > vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
> > >
> > >
> > > On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 08:18:09PM -0800, Wesley Smith wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > > I was attempting a Windows build of some VMD mods I had previously
> > > > made on OSX, but I didn't get very far. It seems the VMD 1.8.6 source
> > > > download is missing the project files for MSVC in the main vmd source
> > > > folder and has a corrupt workspace file in the MSVC plugins folder.
> > > > Any chance of getting these files?
> > > >
> > > > thanks,
> > > > wes
> > >
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> > >
>
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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
>