VMD-L Mailing List

From: Chang, Christopher (Christopher_Chang_at_nrel.gov)
Date: Tue Sep 02 2008 - 13:59:12 CDT

John,

   Thanks, the CVS version built successfully with Python support.

Cheers,

Chris

On 8/29/08 12:05 PM, "John Stone" <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu> wrote:

>
> Hi,
> If you're using Python 2.5.1, you'll want to use the current VMD
> CVS source tree and not the old VMD 1.8.6 source code. That should
> alleviate the majority of the errors I saw below. Give it a spin
> and let me know if you need assistance. The CVS tree is accessible
> via the instructions here:
> http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/doxygen/cvsget.html
>
> Cheers,
> John Stone
> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
> On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 12:01:04PM -0600, Chang, Christopher wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Trying to compile VMD 1.8.6 on dual quad-core Xeon Mac, OSX 10.5.4, with
>> gcc 4.3.1, and the Python and numpy installation that is installed with the
>> OS (Python 2.5.1, built with GCC 4.0.1).
>>
>> VMD configure options are
>>
>> MACOSXX86 FLTKOPENGL FLTK TK ACTC CUDA CONTRIB TCL PYTHON PTHREADS NUMPY GCC
>>
>> as per John Stone's message on 5/1/07, without IMD, SPACEBALL, TACHYON, and
>> NETCDF support.
>>
>> Any ideas if the following is arising from a mismatch between GCC 4.0.1 with
>> which the installed Python was built, and GCC 4.3.1 which I am trying to
>> use?
>>
>> Thanks, Chris
>>
>>
>> echo "Compiling " py_atomsel.C " --> " py_atomsel.o " ..."; \
>> c++ -fPIC -Os -ffast-math -DARCH_MACOSXX86 -DVMDOPENGL -DVMDFLTKOPENGL
>> -DVMDGRAPHICS -DVMDACTC -DVMDCUDA -DVMDCONTRIB -DVMDPYTHON -DVMDTHREADS
>> -DUSEPOSIXTHREADS -D_REENTRANT -DVMDNUMPY -DVMDSURF -DVMDMSMS
>> -DVMDFIELDLINES -DVMDVOLUMETEXTURE -DVMDTCL -DVMDTK -DVMDSTATICPLUGINS
>> -DVMDGUI -DVMDFLTK -I../lib/actc/include -F/System/Library/Frameworks
>> -I../lib/tcl/include
>> -I../lib/tk/lib_MACOSXX86/Tk.framework/Versions/8.4/Headers
>> -I../plugins/include -I../plugins/MACOSXX86/molfile -I../lib/fltk/fltk-1.1.7
>> -I. -I/Users/cchang/include/fltk -c py_atomsel.C -o
>> ../MACOSXX86/py_atomsel.o
>> Compiling py_atomsel.C --> py_atomsel.o ...
>> py_atomsel.C: In function ŒPyObject* sasa(PyAtomSelObject*, PyObject*,
>> PyObject*)¹:
>> py_atomsel.C:863: warning: deprecated conversion from string constant to
>> Œchar*¹
>> py_atomsel.C:863: warning: deprecated conversion from string constant to
>> Œchar*¹
>> py_atomsel.C:863: warning: deprecated conversion from string constant to
>> Œchar*¹
>> py_atomsel.C:863: warning: deprecated conversion from string constant to
>> Œchar*¹
>> py_atomsel.C: At global scope:
>> py_atomsel.C:941: error: invalid conversion from Œint (*)(PyObject*)¹ to
>> ŒPy_ssize_t (*)(PyObject*)¹
>> make: *** [py_atomsel.o] Error 1
>>
>> 

-- 
Christopher H. Chang, Ph.D.
Scientist II
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
1617 Cole Blvd., MS 1608
Golden, CO 80401
Phone (303) 275-3751
Fax (303) 275-4007