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From: Steve Smith (sas_at_lava3d.com)
Date: Tue Aug 24 2010 - 09:39:59 CDT

Thanks to Josh and Axel on their responses... 

I am (more) confident now that I can achieve what I need to here, but that the path might be a little cluttered along the way.

So far, my problems have been precisely what Josh refers to here... getting includes and libraries in places that VMD can find them and/or pointing them out to the VMD makefile.  

I'm stuck now on a (simple?) misunderstanding:

    ld: warning: in ../lib/actc/lib_MACOSXX86/libactc.a, file was built for unsupported file format which is not the architecture being linked (i386)

this error comes up on all (many?) of the libraries I so carefully downloaded and built...  most (all?) of which had no way to specify any architecture or a ./configure, etc..

fumbling around, I tried the following which merely reinforces that I don't really know what I'm doing here.   Any OSX (or other) Wizards who can help sort me out?

$ ld -v libactc.a
@(#)PROGRAM:ld  PROJECT:ld64-97.2
Library search paths:
    /usr/lib
    /usr/local/lib
Framework search paths:
    /Library/Frameworks/
    /System/Library/Frameworks/
ld: warning: -arch not specified
ld: could not find entry point "start" (perhaps missing crt1.o) for inferred architecture x86_64

- Steve
On Monday 23 August 2010 4:32:05 pm you wrote:
  
I'm having trouble building VMD from source on OSX 10.6

On one hand, I'm finding a large number of dependencies that I need to
manually download, build and link into the VMD build system.  I am
guessing that I am missing something about how the build system is
supposed to work?

On the other hand, all the references I find are to OSX 10.2 and 10.3,
so I'm wondering if there is up-to-date support for 10.6 building?

- Steve
    

The biggest trouble I had building on 10.6 is that you need the svn trunk/ 
version of FLTK if you want to build it for x86_64. That and the configure 
scripts for VMD are weird and take a lot of hacking to specify libraries from 
a generic location (in my case, setting to /opt/loca/lib to build against 
macports installed python & other libs).

- Josh
  


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