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Hi Russ. Thank you for this helpful summary for installing netCDF-Fortran version 4.2. A minor difference was that I did not use sudo because I am on a managed computer network with no sudo permission. So instead I used a non-standard location via --prefix. With that, plain "make install" worked fine. Another minor difference is that I am using -L on the compile line for applications, rather than using the DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable. My understanding is that either linkage method is valid on Mac OS. I would like to report successful build and application testing of the netCDF-Fortran v4.2 with core library netCDF-4.2-rc1. Once I figured out what the heck I was doing, everything went smoothly. Here are the particular components and options that I used: Platform = Mac OS 10.6.8 on Intel Mac netCDF4 API is enabled (by default) OpenDAP is disabled (for simplicity) netCDF C++ API was not added C compiler = gcc 4.5.2 Fortran compiler = gfortran 4.5.2 HDF5 version 1.8.8 (without the fortran interface) ZLIB version 1.2.5 SZIP not included Also I used shared libraries rather than static for all components, and for linking my application programs. Static would probably also work; I just did not test this. --Dave On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Russ Rew <russ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Dave, > >> Is there any install documentation for the new separate fortran >> library, netCDF-Fortran version 4.2? There is some talk about build >> details in the netcdfgroup archives from October 2010, at the time of >> initial release. The distribution README file mentions an INSTALL >> file, which is not included. Otherwise, I can't find this in any of >> the likely places. > > Thanks for noticing the missing netCDF-Fortran version 4.2 INSTALL > documentation. It looks like the README is also just a copy from the > previous combined C/Fortran/C++ source distribution. We'll provide the > missing documentation in the next minor release of netCDF-Fortran, and > something on the Web documentation page soon. > > In the meantime, this will work: > > 1. Make sure the netCDF C library is already installed. > 2. Set the CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS environment variables to specify > where the netCDF C library is installed. > 3. Run the configure script from the Fortran release, setting > configure options such as "--prefix", if needed. > 4. Run "make check". > 5. Run "sudo make install". > > As an example, here's what worked for me from the top-level directory of > the Fortran release: > > LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include ./configure > make check > sudo make install > > If you use shared libraries (the default), you will only need to use > -lnetcdff to link with the installed Fortran library. If the shared > libraries are installed somewhere not searched by default, you'll need > to set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH (or DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH for MacOS X) to run > programs linked with the Fortran library. > > If you use static libraries, you'll have to specify -lnetcdf and other > libraries used when the netCDF C library was built. > > --Russ
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