Installation problems

[Siddharth Srinivasan]

I found a very related looking bug at https://simtk.org/tracker/index.php?fun ... 1&atid=435, since I have my own system.h, could that be the problem?

[Siddharth Srinivasan]

I dont have any of the lib*.a files, there seem to be only the lib*.so files that come with the precompiled version, shouldn't I have these .a files as well?

[Peter Eastman]

The .a files are only needed if you want to statically link OpenMM into your own code. As long as you link to it dynamically, you want the .so files.

Make sure that the openmm/lib directory is in the compiler's library path (use the -L flag with gcc), and also that you specify -lOpenMM to tell it to link to the OpenMM library.

Peter

[Siddharth Srinivasan]

Ok, thanks for your help. I gave up on the precompiled libraries, and rebuilt from source. I'm pretty unfamiliar with cmake, so I had to spend quite a bit of time going through the CMakeLists and comment out all the BROOK specific stuff, since I have no idea how to configure it on the CLI. Also, you need to add -lOpenMM_static_d, and not -lOpenMM. Hopefully I can actually work on the code now, rather than compiling it!

[Peter Eastman]

Oh dear, I'm afraid you've made things much more difficult for yourself than they needed to be! There's no need to edit any CMakeList.txt files. The easy way to use CMake is to run the "ccmake" command. It provides a UI that lists all the available options and lets you configure them. One of the options is called OPENMM_BUILD_BROOK_LIB. Turn that option off, and it won't try to compile any of the Brook code.

Peter