Re: [netcdfgroup] NetCDF 4.0 on Windows?

• To: Kolberg Sjur A <Sjur.A.Kolberg@xxxxxxxxx>
• Subject: Re: [netcdfgroup] NetCDF 4.0 on Windows?
• From: John Caron <caron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Sat, 01 Nov 2008 11:23:51 -0600

Having just gone through this, here are my notes:

 http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/docs/faq.html#windows_netcdf4

download

 
ftp://ftp.unidata.ucar.edu/pub/netcdf/contrib/win32/netcdf-4.0_dlls_snapshot2008092909.zip
 ftp://ftp.unidata.ucar.edu/pub/netcdf/contrib/win32/5-181-win-vs2005.zip

(or wherever it points to - im sure there will be updates)

Unzip those and copy the following dlls to a directory in your PATH or 
LD_LIBRARY_PATH:

Netcdf4 DLLs:
 netcdf.dll

HDF5 DLLs:
 hdf5_hldll.dll         
 hdf5dll.dll

(also see http://www.hdfgroup.uiuc.edu/windows/faq.html)

Go to ftp://ftp.hdfgroup.org/lib-external/ and get the szip and zlib DLLS. I 
took

ftp://ftp.hdfgroup.org/lib-external/szip/2.1/bin/windows/szip21-vs2005-enc.zip
ftp://ftp.hdfgroup.org/lib-external/zlib/1.2/bin/windows/?? (missing - i have 
reported to THG)

Or get zlib from http://www.winimage.com/zLibDll/.

unzip to get:
                
 szlibdll.dll           

These also depend on Microsoft DLLs (typically found in C:\WINDOWS\system32), 
but they will already be in your path:
 kernel32.dll           
 msvcr80.dll            
 msvcrt.dll             
 ntdll.dll              

All of these DLLs are pure win32 "unmanaged code", as opposed to .Net "managed 
code". win32 will work on both 32 bit and 64 bit systems. You can also try the 64 bit 
versions, but I didnt.

This is whats needed to run, details of compiling against them may differ.



Kolberg Sjur A wrote:

Hello :-)

Are there any plans to supply compiled binaries for NetCDF 4.0 or 3.6.3 on Windows? The latest Windows pre-built binary is 3.6.1. I try to compile 4.0 from source, after converting the Microsoft Visual Studio.NET (2003) project files to Visual Studio 2005. I first of all get the off_t / int64 conflict: 1>c:\program files\microsoft visual studio 8\vc\include\sys\types.h(101) : error C2632: 'long' followed by '__int64' is illegal

types.h states:

#ifndef _OFF_T_DEFINED
typedef long _off_t; /* file offset value */
#if !__STDC__
/* Non-ANSI name for compatibility */
typedef long off_t;    // This is line 101
#endif
#define _OFF_T_DEFINED
#endif

Preprocessor definitions are not what I know best. But I try to define _OFF_T_DEFINED in project settings-preprocessor definitions; then I get: 1>c:\program files\microsoft visual studio 8\vc\include\sys\stat.h(118) : error C2061: syntax error : identifier '_off_t'

from line 118 and other places in stat.h.
I am not sure about what I can do with the __STDC__ flag.

Does !__STDC__ mean NOT __STDC__ (as in code), and if so, is there somewhere I can set this property? Among other errors, the tarball distribution is missing two header files which are #included elsewhere in the code. Are they really missing, or was it never the intention that the files utf8proc.h and ncdump.c should be read, or #included these two files? 1>c:\program files\netcdf-4.0\libsrc\utf8proc.h(79) : fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'inttypes.h': No such file or directory 2>c:\program files\netcdf-4.0\ncdump\ncdump.c(9) : fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'unistd.h': No such file or directory

Where shoud the symbol TEMP_LARGE be defined? (undeclared identifier)

If someone knows that building NetCDF on Windows using MSVC 2005 is hopeless, please let me know and I won't break my neck on it. But if this somehow "should work", I can continue trying, but I need some assistance.

I have pre-built HDF5-1.8.1 installed (works :-), but I might be missing some environment variables or compiler settings.

Best regards,

Sjur Kolberg
SINTEF Energiforskning A/S
Sem Sælands vei 11
7465 Trondheim
tlf. 73 59 72 78
fax  73 59 72 50

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