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From: Li, Zhen (lizhen6_at_chemistry.msu.edu)
Date: Fri Dec 13 2019 - 16:17:30 CST

To whom it may concern,

I am using VMD on a PC to visualize my AMBER simulation results. Every time I have to manually change ".nc" files to ".mdcrd" files which is pretty unsatisfying.

In the past week I tried to download NetCDF4.7.3-NC3 32-bit from this website https://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/docs/winbin.html, installed, added to PATH and copied every ".lib" files into "System32" and "VMD\plugins\WIN32\molfile" folder. But when I re-installed VMD 1.9.3 OpenGL CUDA version it still does not support NetCDF... Here comes my two questions:

1. Which version of NetCDF should be compatible with which version of VMD? I think some interfaces between VMD software and NetCDF library went wrong but how?

2. I noticed in the "VMD\plugins\WIN32\molfile" folder there are many shared objects (".so" files). Is it possible I can manually make some ".so" files specially for NetCDF?

Thank you for checking the email. Seems it has been an issue for more than 3 year since this email https://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/mailing_list/vmd-l/27978.html. Any help would be appreciated.

Best regards,
Zhen.

Zhen Li,

Rm. 287, Department of Chemistry,

578 S Shaw Ln., Michigan State University,

48824, MI.