[gmx-developers] Making personal plugin

[Mark Abraham]

Jonathan Khao wrote:
> Hello !
> 
> We're currently trying to develop a tool for gromacs which returns the 
> system's coordinates in a cylindrical coordinate. We're newbies in the 
> gromacs developement ... The trxio.h seemed to have the right fuctions 
> to do so.  The problem is that it includes a lot  of dependencies and 
> making tests  and debugging would take an eternity if  we'll have to 
> recompile  the entire  thing.  Are there any instructions somewhere on 
> the web on how to make fast tests while programming or any documentation 
> on how to tweak gromacs ? If not , could you give us some hints or 
> instructions ?

You haven't explained well enough what you're trying to do... make an 
analysis tool or not? If the former, then your testing cycle need only 
rebuild the executable + objects + libraries that you're actually 
changing, by "make <executable>" in the src/xxx subdirectory.

Mark