build-VMDPlugin

BuildGuideVMD plugin

If you are going to compile your program with CPUs other than x86_64 or you are going to use the NetCDF plugin, you need to re-compile the VMD plugins.

Use precompiled VMD plugins distributed by VMD group

If your architecture is listed in "VMD's download page": http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Development/Download/download.cgi?PackageName=VMD, you can obtain the copy of plugins from University of Illinois.
Get VMD verion 1.8.7 or later and download the package.
Copy plugins/[your architecture name]/molfile/*.so files to vmdplugins/libexec directory of ERmod.
Otherwise, proceed to the next section for manually building them.

Build VMD plugins by yourself

Go to the vmdplugins directory and edit Makefile.

# Makefile for molecule file readers
# $Id: Makefile,v 1.102 2009/07/01 18:51:20 johns Exp $

all: dynlibs

CC = gcc
CXX = g++
SHLD = g++ -shared
CCFLAGS = -O -g -fPIC
CXXFLAGS = -O -g -fPIC
NETCDF=yes
NETCDFLIB=-lnetcdf

Update "CC =" and "CXX =" lines so that the C compiler is specified in the "CC" line and that the C++ compiler is identified in "CXX".
Also update "SHLD =" to the C++ compiler and the option which can build a shared library. An example is given as:

Intel compiler

CC = icc
CXX = icpc
SHLD = icpc -shared

Comment out the "NETCDF=yes" line to "# NETCDF=yes" if your machine environment does not have the netcdf library.

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After updating Makefile, execute

make

to compile the libraries.
After that, plugins are generated in "compile" directory.
Generally you only need either "dcdplugin.so", "gromacsplugin.so" or "netcdfplugin.so"; just copy them to libexec directory.

cp compile/dcdplugin.so libexec
cp compile/gromacsplugin.so libexec
cp compile/netcdfplugin.so libexec