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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Mon Jun 20 2005 - 18:06:21 CDT

Hi,
  The distributed binaries of VMD 1.8.3 require MacOS 10.3, as you
had already guessed. I don't have a 10.2.x build machine anymore, so
there's no way for me to build a 10.2.x binary. You can run older versions
of VMD, but there were numerous significant OpenGL improvements in 10.3
that directly benefit VMD and other graphics programs, so I'd actually
suggest that you consider upgrading your Mac to 10.3 if possible.

  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 03:47:47PM -0700, ILJA Khavrutskii wrote:
> I tried to run the vmd 1.8.3 on 10.2.8 OS X, but got an error from dyld
> that vmd cannot open library /usr/lib/libmx.A.dylib. This library does
> not exist indeed on 10.2.8. My guess is the binary for OS X was compiled
> with gcc higher than 3.3, which makes the executable incompatible with the
> old 10.2.8 OS version.
>
> Does anyone know a work around?
>
> Any advice will be appreciated.
>
> -Ilja 

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