Sorry, I meant Eigen3, not Eigen2.
On Feb 21, 2012, at 09:41, Marcus D. Hanwell wrote: > On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 3:44 PM, Donald Ephraim Curtis > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hey guys, long time mailing the list. >> >> So the other day I built Avogadro from scratch, starting off by downloading >> the latest Eigen and OpenBabel from code repositories. I built both >> successfully but had problems building Avogadro I originally chalked it up >> to being Eigen3 instead of Eigen2. > > Still using Eigen2. >> >> But then when I went back to Eigen2 and used the latest development version >> of OpenBabel, I still had problems building. >> >> So then I went back to the latest releases for OpenBabel and Eigen2 and >> everything built nicely…. BUT… > > I am not tracking OB head, but any Eigen2 release should work just > fine. Geoff would know better on OB. >> >> I notice there were a lot of crashes on my end. I don't know offhand what >> they relate to, but I have to guess it's the development version of Avogadro >> that is having the problems. Because I downloaded the latest Avo release >> and things actually ran pretty smooth. >> >> In the end my major questions are: >> >> 1) is anyone working on migrating things to Eigen2? > > We are already on Eigen2. >> >> 2) How does the 1.0 branch relate to the master branch? > > 1.0 forked when we released 1.0, it contains bug fixes and backports. > Master is what will be 1.1, if you look back in the mailing list a few > threads we are working on stabilizing master for a 1.1 release. >> >> 3) Who is the guy that put together the Mac build stuff. It is very nice – >> and maybe part of cmake ? – but it's pretty cool. Though, I'd like to know >> more about how I should do development from a Mac. Should I be opening >> Avogadro.app that is in my build directory or should I be running the >> executable that is in Avogadro.app/Contents/MacOS? > > I did a lot of the build bundle stuff, when I did it the code only > worked on Macs. It has actually been generalized since, and will work > on Windows, Mac and Linux. Geoff does the Mac packaging (or at least > has done all of the previous Mac packages). I did some work getting > Mac builds to work out of the build tree, so you should be able to run > the app in the build tree. Opening Avogadro.app, or directly executing > the exe inside should both work. > > If you have trouble you can always try a make install to see if it is > a build tree issue. I do some development on the Mac and don't see > lots of crashes, I haven't tried with Lion yet, but that should work. >> >> 4) Am I missing a lot of documentation somewhere. The only thing I could >> find were my older docs about building the development version and some docs >> about building on Mac OSX which seemed to leave a bit to the imagination. > > There are docs on the wiki we wrote, and they should be up to date. > > http://avogadro.openmolecules.net/wiki/Building:Development_Version >> >> Thanks. >> >> Also, is anyone planning to put up a Google Summer of Code for this project? >> I am wanting to put something together with a Chemistry prof here but I'm >> not sure what Google looks for. Is adding features that are relevant to >> education a big enough pull? >> > We talked about this, but haven't done anything yet. We do need to get > moving, I would like to establish how we want to apply. > > Marcus ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d _______________________________________________ Avogadro-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/avogadro-devel
