From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Fri Sep 12 2014 - 08:08:12 CDT

Hi,
  If you haven't compiled Tachyon, you need to compile it before you
compile VMD, otherwise you could remove "LIBTACHYON" from the VMD configuration
flags and then recompile it. I would suggest to go get Tachyon, compile it,
and then continue compiling VMD.

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 11:46:39AM +0200, David Muramatsu wrote:
> Dear ladies and gentlemen,
>
> I tried to compile vmd using the src version on Ubuntu 14.04. I compiled
> the plugins and ran
>
> $export PLUGINDIR=~/vmd-1.9.1/plugins
> $make distrib
>
> in the ~/plugins directory. Then I ran
>
> $make linux.cuda.opengl
>
> in the vmd-1.9.1 directory and make in the /src/ directory. That yealded
> the output
>
> ...
> CompilingA OpenGLCache.CA -->A OpenGLCache.oA ...
> CompilingA IMDMgr.CA -->A IMDMgr.oA ...
> CompilingA IMDSim.CA -->A IMDSim.oA ...
> CompilingA IMDSimThread.CA -->A IMDSimThread.oA ...
> CompilingA CmdIMD.CA -->A CmdIMD.oA ...
> CompilingA imd.CA -->A imd.oA ...
> CompilingA LibTachyonDisplayDevice.CA -->A LibTachyonDisplayDevice.oA
> ...
> In file included from LibTachyonDisplayDevice.C:27:0:
> LibTachyonDisplayDevice.h:28:58: fatal error: tachyon.h: No such file or
> directory
> #include "tachyon.h"A A A A A A // main Tachyon library header
> A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A
> ^
> compilation terminated.
> make: *** [LibTachyonDisplayDevice.o] Error 1
>
> I tried to replace the ~vmd-1.9.1/lib/tachyon/ directory with a softlink
> to the /usr/include/tachyon/ directory which yealded the same result. What
> am I doing wrong? I would be very grateful for help here.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> David Muramatsu

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