NanoVer-RS is written in Rust and therefore requires the Rust tool chain to build. Instructions to install the tool chain can be found at https://www.rust-lang.org/tools/install.
The program uses gRPC and needs the protobuf compiler, protoc, to compile.
OpenMM is compiled as part of building NanoVer-RS. It requires Python, cmake, and doxygen.
On linux, the GTK3 headers are needed to compile nanover-gui.
The command to build a release binary is cargo build --release. One would then need to copy the OpenMM library and plugin files from the path indicated during the compilation.
NanoVer-RS uses a modified version of openmm-sys to bind to OpenMM. The documentation for this library describes how to use alternative builds of OpenMM, including the one from conda, for faster compilation.
The OPENMM_PLUGIN_DIR environment variable allows to use OpenMM plugins located elsewhere than in a lib directory next to the executable.
NanoVer-RS uses env_logger to manage logs. This library uses the RUST_LOG environment variable to control the log level. For example, RUST_LOG=trace would set the log level to the most verbose.
Compiling the project requires to install some system packages. The project requires a C and C++ compiler, the GTK3 header files, and the protoc protobuf compiler.
On Fedora, these requirements can be installed with the following commands:
sudo dnf groupinstall "Development Tools" "Development Libraries" "C Development Tools and Libraries"
sudo dnf install gtk3-devel protobuf-compiler protobuf-devel