[netcdfgroup] Make the Cmake Windows build static please !

• To: "Ward Fisher" <wfisher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Allen D Byrne" <byrn@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Subject: [netcdfgroup] Make the Cmake Windows build static please !
• From: "Pedro Vicente" <pvicente@xxxxxxx>
• Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2013 23:24:33 -0700

Hi Allen, Ward

I have a request regarding your new CMake Windows build system, could you add 
an option to make the build static regarding the Microsoft libraries 
(MSVCR100D.dll) ?

Starting with version 4.3.1, NCO 

http://nco.sourceforge.net/

uses the HDF5 and netCDF Windows libraries made with your CMake system, and 
this is causing problems for NCO users, as explained here

https://sourceforge.net/projects/nco/forums/forum/9830/topic/8345151

and here

https://sourceforge.net/projects/nco/forums/forum/9829/topic/8417103


This is just a matter of changing the compiler flag to /MT(d)

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/2kzt1wy3.aspx

Using a dynamic build is just a bad idea, because of these DLL issues.

I have some Windows executables from code I did in the early 90's , that 
unfortunately I cannot run today,
just because I linked them with DLLs, with the DLLs from the Visual Studio from 
that time, that do not exist anymore (it seems every new version they change 
the Visual Studio Dlls).
 
Because of this I do not use Dlls, I know that eventually something will go 
wrong :-)

Pedro

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Pedro Vicente, Earth System Science
University of California, Irvine
http://www.ess.uci.edu/

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