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Stephen, > To: Unidata Support <address@hidden> > From: address@hidden (Stephen G. Loch) > Subject: Re: 199725: Acquring NetCDF software > Organization: . > Keywords: 199702051745.KAA11842 In the above message you wrote: > problem occurs with Nmake. > > I have undertaken the following steps. > > 2) FTPed the data across using ASCII mode > 3) Replaced MSVC20 with MSDEV in the msoft32.mak files > 4) Copied over the local_nc.gen to local_nc.h in libsrc and > msofftab.h to ncgentab.h & msoftty.c to ncgenyy.c in ncgen > 5) Noted there is no make for util directory. > 6) Run, successfully, the msoft32 make in the xdr directory > 7) Run msoft32 in libsrc but it fails on the xdrposix.c compilation > because the precompiler seems not to be executing properly - the necessary > WINNT lines of code are not being included for some reason. When > you put them in specifically the compilation no longer fails. > Yet the /D macro specification for WINNT is present on the command line > as are, so I think, the other directives to make a successful compilation. > > As I don't want to hand edit all the relevant files, could you tell > what you think is going wrong? Regretably, we don't know what is going wrong. More regretably, we don't have any expertise in Windows NT. I suggest that you try Toshinobu Hondo's port of the netCDF package to Windows NT. You might also try corresponding with him. The relevant URL is ftp://ftp.jasco.co.jp/pub/NetCDF/Win32DLL/ -------- Steve Emmerson <address@hidden>