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From: ILJA Khavrutskii (ikhavru_at_scripps.edu)
Date: Mon Jun 20 2005 - 18:26:50 CDT

Thank you, John,
I was still wondering if it would be possible to build the binaries with
gcc 3.3 instead of gcc 4.0 on the OS X machine you are using, if the
latter was indeed used with XCode. That way you should not be needing
10.2.8 machine, I presume.
-Ilja

On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, John Stone wrote:

>
> 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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