From: Bram Stolk (bram_at_sara.nl)
Date: Tue Nov 08 2005 - 03:28:25 CST

Hi there,

I've successfully built VMD from CVS source, on a LINUX ia32 platform,
so I know that I've got my basic procedures just fine...

Now, I attempt to do the same for an IRIX6 platform (SGI Onyx4).

The plugins section build fine.
The sources of the vmd section compile just fine.
However, upon linking, a tcl symbol is not found, even though
-ltcl8.4 is present on link line, and /usr/lib32/libtcl8.4.so does
contain the symbol (as 'nm' will testify, see below).

I find this very strange.

Anyone here, who successfully built from CVS for IRIX?

Thx!

   Bram

bram_at_vger:~/src/vmd/vmd/src$ make
echo "Linking " vmd_IRIX6 "..."; \
cd ../IRIX6 ; \
if [ ! -r ./ii_files ]; then \
   ln -s ../src/ii_files ./ii_files ; \
fi; \
CC -n32 -mips3 -O3 -woff 1110,1167,3255,3262 -OPT:Olimit=8192 -I/usr/include/CC
-DARCH_IRIX6 -DVMDOPENGL -DVMDGRAPHICS -DVMDCAVE -DVMDIMD -DVMDTHREADS
-DUSEPOSIXTHREADS -D_REENTRANT -DVMDSURF -DVMDMSMS -DVMDISOSURFACE
-DVMDVOLUMETEXTURE -DVMDTCL -DVMDTK -DVMDSTATICPLUGINS -DVMDGUI -DVMDFLTK
-I../lib/cave/include -I/usr/include/tcl8.4 -I../lib/tcl/include
-I../lib/tk/include -I../plugins/include -I../plugins/IRIX6/molfile
-I../lib/fltk/include -I. -I../src -o vmd_IRIX6 OpenGLDisplayDevice.o
OpenGLExtensions.o OpenGLRenderer.o OpenGLShader.o OpenGLCache.o Hershey.o
CaveDisplayDevice.o CaveScene.o CaveRoutines.o P_CaveTracker.o P_CaveButtons.o
IMDMgr.o IMDSim.o IMDSimThread.o CmdIMD.o imd.o VMDThreads.o Animation.o
ArtDisplayDevice.o AtomColor.o AtomParser.o AtomLexer.o AtomRep.o AtomSel.o
Axes.o BaseMolecule.o BondSearch.o CmdAnimate.o CmdColor.o CmdDisplay.o
CmdLabel.o CmdMaterial.o CmdMenu.o CmdMol.o CmdRender.o CmdTrans.o
CommandQueue.o CoorPluginData.o DisplayDevice.o Displayable.o DisplayRocker.o
DispCmds.o DrawMolecule.o DrawMolItem.o DrawMolItem2.o DrawMolItemRibbons.o
DrawMolItemMSMS.o DrawMolItemSurface.o DrawMolItemVolume.o DrawForce.o
FileRenderList.o FileRenderer.o FPS.o GeometryAngle.o GeometryAtom.o
GeometryBond.o GeometryDihedral.o GeometryList.o GeometryMol.o GeometrySpring.o
Inform.o ImageIO.o Isosurface.o JRegex.o JString.o macosxvmdstart.o
MaterialList.o Matrix4.o Measure.o Molecule.o MoleculeList.o MoleculeGraphics.o
MolFilePlugin.o Mouse.o MSMSInterface.o PeriodicTable.o P_JoystickTool.o
P_TugTool.o P_GrabTool.o P_PrintTool.o P_PinchTool.o P_UIVR.o P_Buttons.o
P_Tracker.o P_Tool.o P_CmdTool.o P_SensorConfig.o ParseTree.o PickList.o
PickModeAddBond.o PickModeCenter.o PickModeForce.o PickModeList.o
PickModeMolLabel.o PickModeMove.o PlainTextInterp.o PluginMgr.o
POV3DisplayDevice.o PSDisplayDevice.o VMDQuat.o RadianceDisplayDevice.o
RayShadeDisplayDevice.o R3dDisplayDevice.o RenderManDisplayDevice.o Scene.o
SnapshotDisplayDevice.o SpringTool.o Stage.o STLDisplayDevice.o Stride.o Surf.o
SymbolTable.o TachyonDisplayDevice.o Timestep.o UIObject.o UIText.o VMDApp.o
VMDDir.o VMDDisplayList.o VMDMenu.o VMDTitle.o VolMap.o VolMapCreate.o
VolumetricData.o VrmlDisplayDevice.o Vrml2DisplayDevice.o
WavefrontDisplayDevice.o utilities.o vmd.o ColorInfo.o TclCommands.o
TclMeasure.o TclMolInfo.o TclTextInterp.o TclVec.o TclGraphics.o TclVolMap.o
cmd_animate.o cmd_color.o cmd_display.o cmd_imd.o cmd_label.o cmd_material.o
cmd_menu.o cmd_mol.o cmd_mouse.o cmd_plugin.o cmd_render.o cmd_tool.o
cmd_trans.o cmd_user.o cmd_util.o tcl_commands.o VMDTkMenu.o ColorFltkMenu.o
DisplayFltkMenu.o FileChooserFltkMenu.o GraphicsFltkMenu.o SelectionBuilder.o
GeometryFltkMenu.o MaterialFltkMenu.o MolBrowser.o RenderFltkMenu.o
SaveTrajectoryFltkMenu.o VMDFltkMenu.o MainFltkMenu.o ToolFltkMenu.o
frame_selector.o hash.o inthash.o vmdsock.o vmddlopen.o pcre.o fitrms.o
-L../lib/cave/lib_IRIX6 -L../lib/tcl/lib_IRIX6 -L../lib/tk/lib_IRIX6
-L../plugins/IRIX6/molfile -L../lib/fltk/IRIX6 -lGL -lGLU -lcave_ogl -lXi -lGL
  -lpthread -ltk8.4 -lX11 -ltcl8.4 -lmolfile_plugin -lfltk -lX11 -lm -lGL -n32
-mips3 -O3 ;
Linking vmd_IRIX6 ...
ld32: ERROR 33 : Unresolved text symbol "Tcl_PkgRequire" -- 1st referenced by
../plugins/IRIX6/molfile/libmolfile_plugin.a(webpdbplugin-s.o).
         Use linker option -v to see when and which objects, archives and dsos
are loaded.
ld32: ERROR 33 : Unresolved text symbol "Tcl_GetVar2" -- 1st referenced by
../plugins/IRIX6/molfile/libmolfile_plugin.a(webpdbplugin-s.o).
         Use linker option -v to see when and which objects, archives and dsos
are loaded.
ld32: INFO 152: Output file removed because of error.
gmake: *** [vmd_IRIX6] Error 2

bram_at_vger:~/src/vmd/vmd/src$ nm -gC /usr/lib32/libtcl8.4.so | grep PkgRequire
[794] | 87365200| 52|FUNC |GLOB |DEFAULT |MIPS_TEXT|Tcl_PkgRequire
[795] | 87365264| 1096|FUNC |GLOB |DEFAULT |MIPS_TEXT|Tcl_PkgRequireEx

-- 
Bram Stolk, VR Engineer SARA, Amsterdam.   tel +31 20 592 3000
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