From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Wed Jun 01 2011 - 10:15:46 CDT

Guido,
  Be sure to edit Make-arch in the plugins directory to remove the
NetCDF flags in there as well. This will get much easier in the next
version of VMD as I will be changing the way NetCDF is linked to VMD...

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 05:09:24PM +0200, Guido Polles wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I would like to compile vmd from source and I don't care about netcdf
> support. However, I cannot build the plugins without it. I found
> something about setting the netcdf variables empty, but I didn't
> succeeded.
>
> This is the command and the output:
> make LINUX TCLINC=-I/usr/include/tcl8.5/ TCLLIB=-F/usr/lib/tcl8.5/
> NETCDFLIB="" NETCDFINC="" NETCDFLDFLAGS=""
>
>
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lnetcdf
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make[2]: *** [../compile/lib_LINUX/bin/catdcd4.0/catdcd] Errore 1
> make[1]: *** [bins] Errore 1
> make: *** [LINUX] Errore 2
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Best regards
>
> Guido Polles

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