From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Fri Apr 03 2015 - 22:12:02 CDT

Michael,
  Let us know if you need assistance beyond Josh's recommendations.

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 04:48:15PM -0400, Michael Lamparski wrote:
> I'm trying to compile vmd on Ubuntu and am uncertain with regards to how
> to populate the lib/ directory which the vmd Makefile searches for all of
> its dependencies.
> Beginning with a freshly unpacked source tar (containing plugins/ and
> vmd-1.9.2/), I do the following:
> Â cd plugins
> Â export TCLINC=-I/usr/include/tcl8.5
> Â export TCLLIB=-L/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
> Â make LINUXAMD64
> Â export PLUGINDIR=`pwd`/../vmd-1.9.2/plugins
> Â make distrib
> Â cd ../vmd-1.9.2
> Â ./configure LINUXAMD64 OPENGL OPENGLPBUFFER FLTK TK COLVARS IMD SILENT
> XINPUT TCL PTHREADS LIBTACHYON NETCDF PYTHON NUMPY XINERAMA
> (note: this is "make linux.amd64.opengl" without ICC, VRPN, LIBSBALL,
> ACTC, or CUDA)
> Â cd src
> Â make
> (A bunch of files compile successfully... but then:)
> Compiling  colvarproxy_vmd.C  -->  colvarproxy_vmd.o  ...
> colvarproxy_vmd.C:3:17: fatal error: tcl.h: No such file or directory
> Â #include <tcl.h>
> Looking at the Makefile, the cause of the error is clear: Â The makefile
> expects to find the tcl headers in "../lib/tcl/include". Now,
> I could fix this with a symlink or two... however, I also see that no
> "tcl" folder exists in "vmd-1.9.2/lib", which suggests to me that these
> dependencies are meant to be gathered by some automated process
> (otherwise, the only way to know where the files belong is to look at the
> makefile!).
> So... am I missing a step?
> Thanks

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