Downloading wxMacMolPlt

wxMacMolPlt is available as a source code tar file and as pre-built binaries for Mac OS X, Windows and several varieties of Linux. If a pre-built binary is available for your platform please try it first to avoid any issues with the build process.

wxMacMolPlt is licensed under v2 of the GPL. Refer to the LICENSE file in the source release for details.

Most of my development work is done on Mac OS X. Thus, that tends to be the best tested. If you do not see a binary for your OS here please submit a request with information on your OS and hardware architecture.

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Details

Mac OS X

wxMacMolPlt 7.7.3 for Mac OS X 10.11 or newer (x86_64 or arm64) - binary is signed and notarized by Apple allowing it to run on the latest OS releases.

Version 7.7 is available for those with older systems:

wxMacMolPlt 7.7 for Mac OS X 10.7 or newer (64 bit only) - Does not include QuickTime support, but may function better on the latest OS versions
wxMacMolPlt 7.7 for Mac OS X 10.4 - 10.14 on Intel 32 bit processors (includes QuickTime export support, but not animated GIF support)
The 7.7 binaries are signed, but not notarized. On the latest MacOS you will need to follow Apple's instructions for running an app that has not been notarized the first time.
Do you need a binary for a 32 bit x86 or PPC based system or an older OS? Please let me know.

Windows 64 bit

This 64 bit binary is built on Windows 10 with VS2019 on wx 3.2.4. The binary will ONLY run on 64 bit Windows systems (which should be most systems).

64-bit binary for Windows (v 7.7.3) packaged as a Windows installer binary (Ignore the box.com warning)
Same as the previous, but packaged as a zip file (This provides a direct download link, but you will have to manually run the installer)
For those that prefer not to run an installer here is the exact same binary as a plain zip archive. These appear to include the required runtime libraries in the package. However, if the application fails to launch saying MSVCP140.dll is missing then you will need to download and install the Visual Studio 2019 runtime libraries.

Windows 32 bit

This 32 bit Windows binary is built on Windows 7 with VS2008 on wx 2.9.1. I believe it will run on both 32 bit and 64 bit Windows systems both older and newer OS levels.

32-bit binary for Windows (v 7.7.3) packaged as a Windows msi installer package (simply download and double click to install) (Ignore the warning from box.com)
Same as the previous, but in a zip file. (provides a direct download link, but you will have to manually run the installer)
If you can not run an installer on your system here is a plain zip archive. If the wxMacMolPlt.exe file fails to launch with a message saying the configuration is invalid you need to install the VS8 runtime libraries which are available as a free download from Microsoft.

Linux

Here is a source distribution primarily targeted at Linux: wxmacmolplt 7.7.3.

Binaries are available for a variety of Linux distribution. Often a binary rpm can be used on a version or two newer than the one on which it was created. If you would like a binary for a distro not listed please open an issue with the request.

Debian 12 BookWorm/Ubuntu/etc with wx 3.2.2 x86_64 binary.deb
Debian 11 Bullseye/Ubuntu/etc with wx 3.0.5 x86_64 binary.deb (Note you can build this on your system by running debuild in the top directory of the source)
Debian 10 Buster/Ubuntu/etc with wx 3.0.4 x86_64 binary.deb (Note you can build this on your system by running debuild in the top directory of the source)

Source Code

If none of those work for you download the source code and follow the instructions below or in the INSTALL file contained in the source tar file. The prerequisites for building MacMolPlt from source are a working C++ compiler (g++ preferred) and a wxWidgets (version 2.6.3 or newer, but 3.0 or newer recommended) install including the development pieces. You can test for a working wxWidgets install using wx-config --version. If the response is 2.6.3 or greater you should be fine and you can go directly to building MacMolPlt below. If you have hardware supporting stereo display (quad-buffered OpenGL) you may wish to grab the latest wxWidgets 3.x release to enable stereo support in MacMolPlt. If your Linux distribution does not offer a prebuilt wxWidgets package, usually named something like wxGTK or libwxgtk version 2.6.3 or newer then you will have to first build and install wxWidgets. Follow these steps to build wxWidgets:

Download the latest wxWidgets source (2.6.3 through 3.2.4 have worked in the past). Unpack the archive and cd into the top level directory.

Configure wx to use OpenGL and unicode:
./configure --with-gtk --with-opengl --enable-unicode
make
make install

Note: You can install wx into a non-system directory, but that directory will need to be added to your shared library path or shared libraries disabled in the build (--disable-shared). If you get an error in the MacMolPlt configure step saying your wxWidgets build lacks OpenGL support first make sure that the directory where the shared libraries is installed is in /etc/ld.so.conf and then run ldconfig. You should only need to do that once.

Building MacMolPlt. This should be very straightforward.

./configure

If your wxWidgets install is not on your path add --with-wx-config=/path/to/wx-config
To install somewhere other than /usr/local add --prefix=/path/to/top/dir

make
make install

Note: The "make install" step is required as there are a couple of resource files that the application needs at run time to be fully functional.