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From: Caio Silva Souza (caiobiounb_at_gmail.com)
Date: Wed Sep 19 2012 - 12:30:53 CDT

Hi,
I don't know if it is helpfull, but I have already compiled VMD with GCC
4.6 on Ubuntu 12.04 and I didn't get this error.

Cheers,
Caio S. Souza

2012/9/19 John Stone <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu>

> Hi,
> There is no such source file named "VMD.C". I'm afraid you'll
> have to be more specific about the exact error message you got.
> Please send me the exact compiler error output you get, and I should
> be able to give you concrete suggestions.
>
> In general, we have been compiling VMD regularly with GCC versions
> up to 4.2. I don't know if anyone has tried a GCC 4.6 build recently,
> but our local VMD builds are with somewhat older Linux distributions, so
> we only do builds on bleeding-edge GCC versions someone infrequently for
> special VMD installations at other sites.
>
> Cheers,
> John Stone
> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
> On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 04:45:55AM -0700, Sandeep Gupta wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I downloaded VMD 1.9.1 src and tried to compile on my ubuntu 12.04
> > box using g++-4.6. After crossing a few hurdles (with respect to
> > plugins) the make command fails at VMD.C. I get an error saying
> > "vmd_initialize_tcl" not defined.
> >
> > I understand that this error is probably a compiler issue. I wanted
> > to know if there is any workaround or which compiler has been test
> > with vmd.
> > Thanks for looking into this.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Sandeep
>
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