Re: netCDF under Windows

• To: netcdfgroup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
• Subject: Re: netCDF under Windows
• From: R.M.vanHees@xxxxxxxxxx (Richard van Hees)
• Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 09:56:41 +0200

>There is some confusion about the level of support for Windows ports of
>netCDF, because in the netCDF FAQ at
>
>    http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/netcdf/faq.html#platforms
>
>we include Windows NT-3.51 among the list of platforms on which netCDF
>has been built and tested.  Linux is another example of a platform that
>we don't directly support, but for which users have reported success in
>building and testing the current release.
>
>To clarify things, I will separate the on-line list of platforms in the
>FAQ document into two parts:
>
>  1. platforms we directly support, and
>
>  2. platforms on which the software has been built and successfully
>     tested by someone else.
>
>We'll try to continue to incorporate changes needed to make netCDF work
>on platforms to which we have no access, but we may not be able to
>retest a minor release on all such platforms.

Hi,

I have just installed the netCDF library 3.1a on a Linux PC (version 2.0)
and on a Alpha (OSF1 V3.2, ALSO NOT IN THE LIST OF SUPPORTED PLATFORMS).
And it works just fine. I played arround with the new functions, and I
think that they are a big improvement (THANKS). I haven't tested if it is
faster.

On the Dec Alpha I had to use gcc (version 2.7.2.1), because the cc
compiler complained about a floating-point domain error...

Best regards,

Richard

PS. are there any plans to support building a (optional) shared
netCDF-library? With gcc it is straight forward (atleast on a Linux, IRIX

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