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From: Jan Rychter (jan_at_rychter.com)
Date: Mon Apr 30 2007 - 05:39:33 CDT

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.