How to compile Genomorama

Microsoft Windows

Genomorama provides a Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0 workspace to allow compiling from scratch. The workspace file is "GV.dsw".
Before Genomorama can be built, you will need to download and build the windows version of the NCBI tool kit.
Now, using Visual Studio, you need to modify the Genomorama project settings to point to your local installation of the NCBI toolkit libraries and header files:

Under "Project | Settings ..." select the "C/C++" tab
In the "Project Options" box, change the entries /I "C:\ncbi" and /I "C:\ncbi\include" to point to the NCBI root and include directories on your computer
Now select the "Link" tab
In the "Project Options" box change /libpath:"c:\ncbi\lib" to point to the NCBI library directory.

Build the executable by selecting "Build | Build genomorama.exe" on the menu bar

Genomorama provides an XCode 1.1 project to allow compiling from scratch under OS X. The project file is "Genomorama.xcode" .
Before Genomorama can be built, you will need to download and build the windows version of the NCBI tool kit.

** NOTE ** For some reason, the default compile flags for the NCBI tool kit (in ncbi/platform/darwin.ncbi.mk) enable debugging symbols (-g). If you do not need to debug products of the NCBI toolkit, you should remove this flag (from the NCBI_CFLAGS variable).

Now, using Xcode, modify the project settings to account of the local location of the NCBI tool kit

Under "Project | Get Info", select the "Styles" tab
Change the "Header search paths" and "Library search paths" to point to the ncbi directories on your local computer.
Change the paths of the three framework files (shown in the left hand window pane), libncbi.a, libncbitool.a and libncbiobj.a, to point to their local locations in you ncbi/lib directory.
For inter-Mac portability, Genomorama uses restrained optimizations. More aggressive options could include

Build the executable by clicking the "build" button (i.e. the one with the picture of the "hammer") on the tool bar.

Genomorama provides a simple Makefile for compiling under Linux (other flavors of Unix have not been tested).
Note that the Genomorama directory is called "XGenomorama" on Linux.
Before building Genomorama, you need to download and compile the NCBI tool kit. In addition, Genomorama requires OpenGL and Motif libraries (most modern distributions should include these libraries).
Modify the Makefile to point to your local installation of the NCBI toolkit. Specifically, change -L$(HOME)/ncbi/lib to point to the NCBI library directory and change -I$(HOME)/ncbi/include to point to the NCBI include directory.
Type make at the command line to compile Genomorama.
The error message "In function `Nlm_TmpNam':: the use of `tempnam' is dangerous, better use `mkstemp'" is spurious and does not indicate a problem.
If you observe screen artifacts surrounding the mouse, try adding "-DDISABLE_DRI" to the Makefile and rebuilding (this may be needed for older linux systems).
If you needed to make any additional modifications to the Makefile to get Genomorama to build, please let me know.