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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Tue May 01 2007 - 12:35:50 CDT

Jan,
  The reason your build used X11 rather than Aqua was because
it was compiled with "OPENGL" rather than "FLTKOPENGL". We normally
compile the MacOS X Intel version of VMD with:
MACOSXX86 FLTKOPENGL FLTK IMD TK TCL SILENT SPACEBALL PTHREADS LIBTACHYON \
ACTC NETCDF

I don't know what makefile editing you did, but I suspect it was
due to the use of non-framework versions of Tcl/Tck/etc. If you tell me
more specifically what you're doing, I should be able to help you get
things working.

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 12:39:33PM +0200, Jan Rychter wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Does anyone have a build of VMD running under Mac OS X (Intel) with
> Python support?
>
> I've been trying to compile vmd 1.8.6 on MacOS X (10.4.9, Intel) with
> Python support (I have 2.5 installed), and gave up. After much, much
> fighting and manual makefile editing I got the executable to actually
> build and link, but now running it results in a segfault. The terminal
> says:
>
> [12:35] tnuctip:/Users/jwr>/Applications/VMD\ 1.8.6\ jwr.app/Contents/MacOS/startup.command; exit
> Info) VMD for MACOSXX86, version 1.8.6 (April 29, 2007)
> [...]
> Info) Multithreading available, 2 CPUs detected.
> ERROR) Exiting due to X-Windows OpenGL window creation failure.
> Info) VMD for MACOSXX86, version 1.8.6 (April 29, 2007)
> Info) Unable to create OpenGL window.
>
> I have no idea why it tries to use X11, I thought it would use native
> GL. I have it configured with
> MACOSXX86 OPENGL TK TCL PYTHON PTHREADS NUMPY
>
> Any ideas? Perhaps someone has built such a binary and would be kind
> enough to provide it?
>
> --J. 

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