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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Thu Sep 27 2012 - 09:49:32 CDT

Hi,
  In general, there's not normally a way to decompose a binary into its
component object files, replace a single object file, and then re-link
it into an executable again. I could definitely see where such a feature
might be nice, but the other problem one would have is that even if it were
possible to do this, it wouldn't be possible to do it with mismatched versions
of the compilers and libraries.

If I may ask, why are you changing Surf.C? If you tell me more about
what you're trying to do, there may be an easier way to accomplish it...

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 11:32:01AM +0200, Sabine Reisser wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I changed a file in the source code of VMD (Surf.C) and although I could
> compile it and get the Surf.o, I am having a hard time compiling all the
> other objects, because there seems to be an endless list of
> dependencies. Actually, I don't even want to compile the others, but I
> need the other object files to link them to the new executable
> vmd_LINUXAMD64.
> If I just had all the objects of the precompiled version and replaced
> the Surf.o, I could link them to vmd_LINUXAMD64. Is there a way to
> unlink vmd_LINUXAMD64 from the precompiled version, so I could get the
> objects back?
> Or is there by chance any place I could download the objects from the
> precompiled version?
>
> Thanks for reading and cheers
> Sabine
> 

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