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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Fri Feb 18 2011 - 12:29:42 CST

David,
  You'll need to use MSVC to compile everything. The cygwin tools will
be used during the compile of the VMD plugins, but only for "make", it will
actually _run_ the MSVC compilers and not GCC...

Cheers,
  John

On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 01:17:38PM -0500, David Joiner wrote:
> I've compiled ball.exe w/ cavelib on my dev machine and ran it on the
> cave. I had to copy the most recent msvcr dll files over, but otherwise
> that worked with no hiccups.
>
> I'll work on the dependencies next. Should I build them in msvc or.cygwin?
>
> Thanks!
> Dave
>
> On Feb 18, 2011 12:57 PM, "John Stone" <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu> wrote:
>
> David,
> I would think that should be workable, although I'm only using
> MSVS 2005 here, due to the need to link against various libraries.
> For your puroses MSVS 2010 might work ok. Before we get into it,
> I assume for starters that you're able to compile and link CAVElib
> demo apps using MSVS 2010, right? Since your end-goal is to get
> VMD running with the Windows CAVElib, I'd test to make sure that doesn't
> have any issues with MSVS 2010 first. If not, then the next thing is
> to get your Tcl/Tk/FLTK builds for Windows going, as you need Tcl
> to be compiled already before you can begin building the VMD plugins.
> See if you can get those steps done first.
>
> Cheers,
> John
>
> On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 08:57:13PM -0500, David Joiner wrote:
> > Sounds fun.
> >
> > Right now I have b...
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