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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Fri Mar 02 2007 - 17:15:22 CST

Hi,
  VMD requires Tcl 8.4.x, I believe that the error message you're
getting is the result of compiling against Tcl 8.3.x. If you grab
the latest version of Tcl 8.4.x, compile and install that somewhere
on your system, and then compile VMD against that, you should be in
business. Let us know if you need more help.

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 04:09:25PM -0700, Philip Blood wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to compile VMD 1.8.5 from the source code on SDSC Datastar
> which runs AIX 5.2. I have successfully compiled plugins there thanks
> to helpful tips on this list, but I have not read of anyone going
> through the full VMD compilation. I use these options to configure:
>
> ./configure AIX5_64 OPENGL FLTK TK IMD TCL PTHREADS NETCDF LP64
>
> And then run gmake in the src directory. Most of the source compiles,
> but it fails here with this message:
>
> xlC -O -q64 -qarch=com -qtune=pwr4 -D_H_ACCESS=1 -DARCH_AIX5_64
> -DVMDOPENGL -DVMDGRAPHICS -DVMDIMD -DVMDTHREADS -DUSEPOSIXTHREADS
> -D_REENTRANT -DVMDSURF -DVMDMSMS -DVMDVOLUMETEXTURE -DVMDTCL -DVMDTK
> -DVMDSTATICPLUGINS -DVMDGUI -DVMDFLTK -I../lib/tcl/include
> -I../lib/tk/include -I../plugins/include -I../plugins/AIX5_64/molfile
> -I../lib/netcdf/include -I../lib/fltk/include -I. -c ColorInfo.C -o
> ../AIX5_64/ColorInfo.o
> Compiling ColorInfo.C --> ColorInfo.o ...
> "ColorInfo.C", line 153.32: 1540-0256 (S) A parameter of type "char *"
> cannot be initialized with an expression of type "const char *".
> "ColorInfo.C", line 153.32: 1540-1205 (I) The error occurred while
> converting to parameter 2 of "Tcl_GetInt(Tcl_Interp *, char *, int *)".
> gmake: *** [ColorInfo.o] Error 1
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Phil 

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