VMD-L Mailing List

From: Vermaas, Joshua (Joshua.Vermaas_at_nrel.gov)
Date: Fri Feb 22 2019 - 16:15:14 CST

Hi Ashutosh,

Yeah, that happens because .so is the default file extension for compiled shared object libraries on unix-derived operating systems (Linux & Mac). Those files have zero meaning on windows systems, which instead uses .dll files for the same purpose. The immeadiate solution to your problem is to go back to the version of pbctools distributed with VMD that only depends on tcl and forget this ever happened. Was there a particular feature you were looking for that wasn't in the standard build?

-Josh

On 2019-02-22 15:10:36-07:00 Tripathi, Ashutosh wrote:
It mentioned:>

“C:/Softwares/VMD/pbctools couldn’t load library “C:/Softwares/VMD/pbctools/libpbc_core.so”: this library or a dependent library could not be found in library path 3.0”

I tried looking up for libpbc_core.so file but couldn't find it anywhere.

Thank you so much

Ashutosh

From: "Vermaas, Joshua" <Joshua.Vermaas_at_nrel.gov>
Date: Friday, February 22, 2019 at 4:05 PM
To: "vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu" <vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu>, "Tripathi, Ashutosh" <tripathi_at_medicine.tamhsc.edu>
Subject: [EXTERNAL] RE: pbctools installation error

A .so file on windows shouldn't be required. What did it specifically say?

-Josh

On 2019-02-22 14:36:43-07:00 owner-vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu wrote:

I recently installed VMD version 1.9.3 on my Window's workstation (Windows 7). I am now trying to install PBCtools plugin which I downloaded from github. I have made modifications to the vmd.rc file.

set dir C:/Softwares/VMD/pbctools

source $dir/pkgIndex.tcl

package require pbctools

However, VMD cannot load libpbc_core.so library files. it specifically says