netCDF compilation under MS-Windows?

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• Subject: netCDF compilation under MS-Windows?
• From: 21-Jan-1992 1341 <lysakowski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1992 15:05:31 PST

Has anyone done a compilation of netCDF under Microsoft Windows 3.0 ?

There was a problem with compilation under MS-Windows using the netCDF 
v1.09 sources.  It would not work because of some array pointer passing 
its boundary.  This resulted in not being able to use netCDF directly under 
MS-Windows, unless you use the Microsoft C compiler "huge memory model".  

Using the Microsoft C compiler "huge memory model" is not kosher since 
most significant MS-Windows applications use lots of memory. There is 
not enough memory left to run other applications if netCDF is compiled 
under the huge memory model.  

Instead, one has to create a conversion program as a stand-alone DOS 
application.  

I did not see anywhere in the v2.0 kit that this array pointer problem 
had been fixed, or that the kit has been successfully tested under 
MS-Windows V3.0.

Has anyone tried this and what were the results?  Did it work for you? 
If not, what was the problem?  If so, what was your fix?  

Rich Lysakowski
The Analytical Data Interchange and Storage Standards (ADISS) Project