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>To: "'address@hidden'" <address@hidden> >cc: "Lee, Sunhee" <address@hidden> >From: "Lee, Sunhee" <address@hidden> >Subject: NetCDF on Windows&NT >Organization: CSIRO Atmospheric Research >Keywords: 199909090238.UAA12703, Windows NT Hi Sunhee, > My name is Sunhee Lee and am working for Australian national > scientific reaserach organisation called CSIRO. > I hope to install NetCDF on Windows and NT. > On your web page of FAQsite it was mentioned that to build NetCDF on a Win32 > platform, obtain://http.unidata.ucar.edu/pub/netcdf/contrib/win32/makes.zip. > when I read its win32_install file, it mentions that it builds netcdf > using MS VIsual C++ and Digital Visual Fortan5.0. > My question is that it is possible to build with Lahey Fortran Compiler. > Also is there any latest development regarding implementing Netcdf on > Winows? We don't have a Lahey compiler, so I don't know what problems there might be trying to build the Fortran interface for a Lahey compiler. I've looked back through the netCDF support mail archives, searching for "lahey" from http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/glimpsedocs/ghnetcdf.html and http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/glimpsedocs/ghnetcdfgroup.html but didn't see anyone reporting about success with this combination. Arellano Avelino <address@hidden> posted a question about this to the netcdfgroup mailing list in October 1998 http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/glimpse/netcdfgroup-list/1217 but there was no response. Also Arlindo da Silva reported success using the freely available g77 compiler for GNU Win32 platforms with netCDF 3.4, see http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/glimpse/netcdfgroup-list/1198 The current netCDF 3.4 version compiles on Windows NT using the Visual C++ compiler; there are a couple of warnings that can be ignored: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/netcdf/known_problems.html#nc_test The current beta release of netCDF version 3.5 compiles on Windows NT using the Visual C++ compiler. You can get the beta release sources from ftp://ftp.unidata.ucar.edu/pub/netcdf/netcdf-3.5-beta2.ZIP and use the Makefiles available from ftp://ftp.unidata.ucar.edu/pub/netcdf/contrib/win32/netcdf-3.5.win32make.ZIP or just get the binary for Windows NT from ftp://ftp.unidata.ucar.edu/pub/netcdf/contrib/win32/netcdf-3.5.win32bin.ZIP --Russ _____________________________________________________________________ Russ Rew UCAR Unidata Program address@hidden http://www.unidata.ucar.edu