Dear Mark and GROMACS users: Mark wrote. > You can't build DLLs since the cygwin build tools are unix-style, and > the GROMACS build strategy is unix-specific. --enable-shared also > probably won't work for unix-style shared libraries, because the dynamic > linker is probably the Windows ld.exe, which can't deal with unix-style > shared libraries.
Thanks a lot for the comment. > It would be possible to make GROMACS write proper DLLs using the cygwin > dlltool functionality, but nobody has ever cared enough to do it. I'd > struggle to imagine a useful Windows environment where providing 100MB > of statically-linked executables was a serious problem. I found the libtool within gromacs source (both 3.3.3 and 4.0.4) is not as new as that of e.g. fftw-3.2.1 (which use the libtool-2.2.6). I'm wondering if the libtool version was updated to the newer one, then the DLLs could be generated properly, because fftw-3.2.1 can build DLL on cygwin if it configured with --enable-shared. I'd tried that with gromacs a little but no success as I have no detailed knowledge on GNU autotools. > For a course, > you won't even need the whole executable set. mdrun, grompp, editconf, > pdb2gmx, genion, g_energy, trjconv and maybe one or two more analysis > tools to suit the course should do it. You're right. That may be a practical solution in the current situation. Kind Regards. Makoto Yoneya, Dr. AIST, Japan _______________________________________________ gmx-users mailing list gmx-users@gromacs.org http://www.gromacs.org/mailman/listinfo/gmx-users Please search the archive at http://www.gromacs.org/search before posting! Please don't post (un)subscribe requests to the list. Use the www interface or send it to gmx-users-requ...@gromacs.org. Can't post? Read http://www.gromacs.org/mailing_lists/users.php
