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From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith (stephen_at_math.missouri.edu)
Date: Thu Aug 12 2004 - 11:05:49 CDT

I have managed to successfully get something compiled on FreeBSD 4.10.
I have several questions about this process, but first I would like to
ask more general questions.

When I downloaded vmd-1.8.2.src.tar.gz and did the tar xvfz to it, it
came up with two directories - vmd-1.8.2 and plugins. Trying to compile
it all, it seemed to me that really plugins should be placed inside
vmd-1.8.2, because otherwise the various compiler flags -I and -L all
pointed to the wrong place. So (more or less) this is what I did:

cd plugins
make FREEBSD
mv compile/lib_FREEBSD FREEBSD
cd ../vmd-1.8.2
mv ../plugins .
./configure FREEBSD OPENGL TK TCL etc etc
cd src
vi Makefile && vi AtomParser.C # do some requried edits
make
make install

At the end of this process, I have installed /usr/local/bin/vmd and
/usr/local/lib/vmd. Inside lib/vmd is plugins/FREEBSD which I think but
am not sure if it should be there.

When I run vmd, it does work, but I get a bunch of error messages - are
these bad?

The VMD sequence viewer could not be initialized properly:
can't find package zoomseq
AutoIMD package could not be loaded:
can't find package autoimd
IMD menu package could not be loaded:
can't find package imdmenu
Contact Map package could not be loaded:
can't find package contactmap
VMD PDBTool package could not be loaded:
can't find package pdbtool
RamaPlot package could not be loaded:
can't find package ramaplot
VMD RMSD package could not be loaded:
can't find package rmsdtool
Solvate package could not be loaded:
can't find package solvate
Timeline package could not be loaded:
can't find package timeline
VMD TkCon package could not be loaded:
can't find package vmdtkcon
VMD Movie Generator package could not be loaded:
can't find package vmdmovie

Finally, I see from the mailing lists that there are other FreeBSD users
here. I would like to make it into a "port" so that all future users
have to do is type cd /usr/ports/graphics/vmd && make install clean. I
have already started on this, but I want to get these issues figured out
before I work on it more. 

-- 
Stephen Montgomery-Smith
stephen_at_math.missouri.edu
http://www.math.missouri.edu/~stephen