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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Wed Jan 23 2013 - 09:38:51 CST

Hi,
  Use the tachyon/src directory as the "include" directory.

Cheers,
  John

On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 04:32:58PM +0100, Albert wrote:
> Hello John:
>
> thank you for kind reply.
> I use command:
>
> make linux
>
> to compile Tachyon and I get the following file at compile/linux folder:
>
> libtachyon libtachyon.a tachyon
>
> It seems that there is no "include" directory, so I am wondering where
> should I specify the include section?
>
> thank you very much
> best
> Albert
>
> On 01/22/2013 06:30 PM, John Stone wrote:
> >Albert,
> > You can put the Tachyon compilation anywhere you want so long
> >as you adjust the vmd/configure script directories appropriately:
> >$libtachyon_dir = "$vmd_library_dir/tachyon";
> >$libtachyon_include = "-I$libtachyon_dir/include";
> >$libtachyon_library = "-L$libtachyon_dir/lib_$config_arch";
> >
> >You can change any of those three lines to force VMD to look
> >in a particular path/directory for the Tachyon include files
> >and libraries.
> >
> >Cheers,
> > John Stone
> > vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
> >
> >On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 06:28:08PM +0100, Albert wrote:
> >>Hi John:
> >>
> >> thanks a lot for kind advices.
> >>
> >> I've already download tachyon and compiled it. However, I don't know
> >>where should I place the compiled tachyon so that VMD can find it....
> >>shall I place in $vmdsource/lib or somewhere else?
> >>
> >>thank you very much
> >>best
> >>Albert
> >>
> >>
> >>On 01/22/2013 06:11 PM, John Stone wrote:
> >>>Hi,
> >>> You need to use one of the newest versions of Tachyon in order to
> >>>compile VMD from source code with the Tachyon option enabled. You can
> >>>get recent versions of Tachyon here:
> >>> http://www.photonlimited.net/~johns/tachyon/
> >>>
> >>>Cheers,
> >>> John Stone
> >>> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu 

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