Has anyone had success getting chimera to run under FreeBSD? I can get the linux version to start (under the linuxulator), but it crashes after ~20 seconds when the bundled version of python core dumps. I'm running FreeBSD 6.1 on an intel architecture. Thanks -- Devon Ryan | dpryan@sg.uchicago.edu Neuro Grad Student, Ptacek Lab | dpryan@phy.ucsf.edu University of Chicago '02 | dpryan@alumni.uchicago.edu www.dpryan.com | dpryan@dpryan.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.
Hi Devon, We (the Chimera developers) have not built it on FreeBSD. The trouble is that it requires compiling about 35 third party packages FFmpeg, HappyDoc, Imaging, MMTK, Mesa, Numeric, Pmw, PyOpenGL, PyXML, Python, STLport, Scientific, TclTk, Tix, Togl, al2co, antechamber, autostereo, expat, f2c, freetype, ftgl, grail, jpeg, mpeg_encode, msms, netcdf, omni, openssl, pymmlib, qhull, swish-e, tiff, tr, win32, zip, zlib That's alot of work. We don't have a FreeBSD system, and it does not seem likely that it would benefit alot of users. I am not surprised that Chimera will not run under an emulator. There is alot of low level bit-twiddling code in the packages it uses. Tom
Devon Ryan wrote:
Has anyone had success getting chimera to run under FreeBSD? I can get the linux version to start (under the linuxulator), but it crashes after ~20 seconds when the bundled version of python core dumps. I'm running FreeBSD 6.1 on an intel architecture. Thanks
Thanks to Devon's offer to use his machine, we now have a FreeBSD snapshot of Chimera available on the download page. The build is not thoroughly tested but will at least start up and display a molecule. If there is enough interest, we will consider adding FreeBSD as a supported platform. Conrad
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