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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Fri Feb 15 2013 - 09:46:16 CST

Hi,
  To use VMD with a bleeding edge git version of VRPN would generally
require you to recompile from source, as most VRPN versions are
incompatible with each other. Do you need something specific from
VRPN 7.30 in particular, or you just got the latest git because it
was convenient? I probably have a binary build of VRPN for Windows
that matches the pre-built Windows builds of VMD if I look around a bit.
If you need VRPN 7.30 for some reason, then a source build is unavoidable
presently.

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 03:04:51PM +0100, Stefano Ugolini wrote:
> Hi all,
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> I am trying to setup a Sensable Phantom haptic device to work as a VMD
> tool via VRPN 7.30 (git version).
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> The Phantom device is on a Windows7 machine where VMD has been installed
> with the pre-compiled version (no VRPN support apparently). On the
> Windows7 machine I have compiled and installed VRPN and its server and
> client application seem to properly work with the Phantom.
>
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> Therefore, the following step would be to compile VMD on Windows7 with
> VRPN option and run VMD-VRPN and VRPN server locally.
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> I know how to compile VMD on Linux but I have no idea how to do that on
> Windows7. I found some threads about it but I could not find any
> step-to-step howto or detailed descriptions. Also, is there any way to
> obtain a pre-compiled Windows build of VMD with VRPN option?
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> Thanks in advance
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> Stefano
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> 

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