Hi Utkal,

Cpp.exe is called by grompp to preprocess the topology.

Tsjerk

On 7/18/07, Utkal Ranjan Pradhan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:




Thank you for your reply.



But still confused WHY CPP.EXE IS REQUIRED AT RUNTIME ?

(Note that, I can build gromacs without cpp.exe with MS VS 2005, but while
running applications like mdrun, it looks for cpp.exe L)





Thank You;

URPradhan At Gmail Dot Com


David van der Spoel wrote:
> Utkal Ranjan Pradhan wrote:
>> Friends
>>
>>
>>
>> As I know cpp.exe is a GNU port for C Preprocessor for Windows and
>> which is required to compile the Gromacs code.
>>
>> But I'm confused, Why it is required during runtime of Gromacs
>> applications ?
>>
>> And I have the Win32 version of cpp.exe, will it work for x64 (=Win64) ?
>>
>> What is the Windows native equivalent of cpp.exe ? Is it cl.exe ?
>>
>> How can I remove the runtime dependency of cpp.exe for gromacs
>> applications ?
>
> by writing an implementation of the cpp and donating it to the gromacs
> project. In fact, it wouldn't be so hard, since we are only using a few
> features in practice:
> #include
> #ifdef #else #endif
> #define
>
> Please provide a simple C program that takes a file, searches for these
> commands and does the same what the cpp does.
>
>
see also
http://wiki.gromacs.org/index.php/Cpp_replacement

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