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From: Hirsh Nanda (hirshn_at_gmail.com)
Date: Tue Apr 26 2005 - 14:17:32 CDT

Has anyone else succesfully gotten python and numpy to work with VMD
on a Mac OSX 10.3 platform. The python libraries linked in an earlier
post don't seem to work. I've been trying the compile the source code
option but have run into numerous problems. In particular the link to
the source code for the STRIDE and SURF plugins are broken or
outdated. And in general the documentation for compiling VMD is not
helpful, it needs to explain the procedure in significantly more
detail. I've basically hit a wall here, if anyone has had any success
with VMD & python on their Mac please help me out.

-Hirsh

On 4/20/05, John Stone <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu> wrote:
>
> Will,
> Building VMD isn't all that hard actually, the hardest part tends to
> be building the various libraries that VMD links against. Python has
> been "interesting" on MacOS X. I'm still in the middle of sorting
> out various stuff with our MacOS X Python build. Since you'll be
> compiling your own VMD binaries, it shouldn't be hard, you could
> even choose to use the Apple provided Python if you wanted to.
> In my case, I attempt to package the same rev of Python on all of
> the architectures, to ensure a degree of consistency in the behavior
> of VMD and because I don't have time to maintain more than one rev
> at once. For your own purposes, you can choose any version that
> is stable enough for your taste on the platform(s) of your choosing.
>
> John
>
> On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 12:32:05PM -0700, William Sheffler wrote:
> > Hi John
> >
> > I'm about to buy a 17" powerbook, and I was wondering how hard it is to
> > compile VMD on a mac. I've tried and failed on linux before, so I'm a
> > little nervous. I'm going to need a fully operational python interpreter
> > built in. Can you make any suggestions? Also, what are the advantages
> > and disadvantages of writting a VMD plug-in (Extension?)?
> >
> > I'm really looking forward to this Rosetta/VMD project! I'm probably
> > going to get started once the powerbook order comes thru.
> >
> > -Will
>
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