This dir contains the hooks to build and link LAMMPS with the VMD molfile plugins, http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/plugins/molfile/.

When you build LAMMPS with its USER-MOLFILE package installed you need to be able to dynamically load and execute the plugins from inside LAMMPS. This requires to link with a system library containing functions like dlopen(), dlsym() and so on for dynamic linking of executable code into an executable. This library is defined by setting the molfile_SYSLIB variable in Makefile.lammps. For Linux and most current Unix-like operating systems, this can be kept at the default setting of "-ldl" (on some platforms this library is called "-ldld"). For compilation on Windows, a different mechanism is used that is part of the Windows programming environment and thus no additional library is needed.

molfile_SYSINC = should not need to be set molfile_SYSLIB = linker flag or library to enable dynamic linker support molfile_SYSPATH = should not need to be set