From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Tue Jan 28 2003 - 09:39:36 CST

Hi,
  In order to compile VMD from source, you need the plugins directory
in addition to the main VMD source tree. I'm curious, what video board
are you using such that you're able to get hardware acceleration on NetBSD?
If its possible to get hardware acceleration on NetBSD now, it may be worth
my time to build a VMD version and config options to better support
compilation on that platform. (I used to work on the Sparc ports of
NetBSD and OpenBSD years ago, so it still has a special place in my heart)

If you got ths source distribution from our download page, it should
have included a 'plugins' directory as well as a 'vmd' directory, when
unpacked. Let me know if this was not the case.

Thanks,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 11:54:00AM +0100, Lubos Vrbka wrote:
> hi, i'm trying to compile vmd-1.8 for my platform (NetBSD). the linux
> binary distribution with Mesa works fine under emulation, but i think
> real hardware acceleration would be better (and unfortunately, opengl
> binary doesn't work :o( )
>
> there's problem in the beginning of the compilation - there are probably
> some header files missing... :o( at least vmdplugin.h is required but
> not present (within the whole vmd-1.8 tree)
>
> where could i get the complete source (this source is downloaded from
> the download page)? probably CVS could help... anyway, the distribution
> file should probably be modified/fixed...
>
> configure options are
> LINUX OPENGL TK IMD TCL GCC
>
> the error is as follows:
> echo "Compiling " AtomSel.C " --> " AtomSel.o " ..."; g++ -Wall -O9
> -march=i586 -fomit-frame-pointer -finline-functions
> -fexpensive-optimizations -fcaller-saves -fthread-jumps
> -fstrength-reduce -DARCH_LINUX -DVMDSURF -DVMDMSMS -DVMDISOSURFACE
> -DVMDSTATICPLUGINS -I../plugins/include -I../plugins/LINUX/molfile -I.
> -c AtomSel.C -o ../LINUX/AtomSel.o
> Compiling AtomSel.C --> AtomSel.o ...
> In file included from VMDApp.h:8,
> from AtomSel.C:35:
> PluginMgr.h:13: vmdplugin.h: No such file or directory
> In file included from AtomSel.C:35:
> VMDApp.h:39: vmdplugin.h: No such file or directory
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop.
> make: stopped in /traj1/shnek/vmd-1.8/src
>
> anyone has seen this problem?
>
> regards,
> lubos
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>
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