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


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