Re: [PyMOL] Pymol binaries for Windows

[Christoph G. <cg...@uc...>]

To quote Warren L. DeLano on building PyMOL on Windows: "Given enough
effort, native compilation is certainly do-able, but it is not intended
to be easy... nor commonplace." See
<http://www.mail-archive.com/pym...@li.../msg05696.html>
and
<http://www.mail-archive.com/pym...@li.../msg06761.html>.
Interesting read... Is this also Schrodinger's opinion?


On 1/30/2010 12:24 PM, Nikola Wenta wrote:
> Hello all!
> I became aware that Pymol, a nice x-ray structure viewer, is no longer
> available as  binary but rather needs to be compiled from source code.
> While the setup under (Slackware 12.2-) Linux ran smootly with "python
> setup.py install" and "python setup2.py install", the same attempt
> didn't work under Windows. Under Windows XP, I have tried it first
> with Python 2.4, but I didn't have a C++ compiler installed. Then I
> installed Visual C++ 2008 Express, but it didn't work either. I then
> found the "build -C mingw32" for MingW32/MSYS installation suggestion
> which also didn't work. At last I have tried to compile Pymol within
> CygWin. All attempts under Windows failed. Did someone succeed with
> generating Windows binaries for Pymol 1.2.x (build 3887) and is
> willing to share the binaries and a working procedure for their
> generation with the Pymol-under-Windows community?
> Thank you very much for any helpful suggestions!
> Niko