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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Sat Apr 29 2006 - 22:48:09 CDT

Hi,
  VMD is compiled on Windows using the MSVC tools rather than
with straight makefiles. The win32 plugins are compiled using
makefiles however. Compiling VMD itself on Windows is actually
quite easy, but getting all of the other libraries built can be
a serious pain. Unless you're up to the daunting task of
compiling all of the libraries VMD needs with the right runtime
library linkage etc, I'd suggest building on one of the other
platforms if you're just modifying the code for your own
experiments.
 
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 11:12:23PM -0400, Chang Hu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> A quick question: is there any way to build VMD in Windows? I saw a
> "WIN32" option in make_distribut but not in Makefile.
>
> Thanks,
> Chang 

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