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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Thu Aug 12 2004 - 18:13:01 CDT

Stephen,
  Sounds good. If you have any suggestions for improving the
programmer's documentation pages I mentioned so they are easier to
follow for people that have never compiled VMD, let me know.

Regarding FreeBSD 5.x, I worked with someone that got it compiled on
FreeBSD 5.x, but it crashed at runtime for an unknown reason that never
got adequately resolved as I remember, probably something simple was not
working correctly at the time, but if you get to working on 5.x let me know.

Thanks,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 04:51:42PM -0500, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
> John Stone wrote:
> >Hi Stephen,
> > Have you read the VMD compilation instructions here?:
> >http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/doxygen/compiling.html#compiling
> >http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/plugins/doxygen/compiling.html
> >
>
> I had seen the first web page (which I must admit I skim read) but not
> the second. Now it all works perfectly.
>
> >
> >I think it'd be great if you have a VMD addition to the ports tree.
> >The only tricky part is that due to NIH's tracking requirements, you'll
> >have to require them to manually download the source rather than doing
> >an automatic download. If you need help with anything, let me know.
> >
>
> Thank you. I'll submit the port to this mailing list first when I have
> it ready, so that FreeBSD users on this list can check it out. (Also I
> think that there will be a difference between FreeBSD 5.x and 4.x that I
> will need to take into account somehow.)
>
> Stephen 

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