20000814: NetCDF release with libnetcdf.a

Felicity,

> To: address@hidden
> From: Felicity McAllister <address@hidden>
> Subject: NetCDF for Fortran 77
> Organization: UCAR/Unidata
> Keywords: 200008140628.e7E6S8N11103

The above message contained the following:

> I'm new to all of this.  I want to write fortran programs that can read and
> write NetCDF files.  I'm using fortran 77 on a UNIX platform and Fortran 90
> on windows.  So preferably, I will compile fortran 77 code for both.  I
> have found an example that uses libnetcdf.a and netcdf.inc.  I have not
> been able to find a release on the unidata site that includes the
> libnetcdf.a file.  Can you help me please???
> kind regards,
> Felicity
> Felicity McAllister
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I'm not sure what you're asking.  We do provide some binary netCDF
releases that contain the file "libnetcdf.a" for UNIX systems.  They are
available at <ftp://ftp.unidata.ucar.edu/pub/binary/> under the
appropriate system subdirectory.  We, typically, don't provide such
releases for Wintel systems because: 1) we don't have many such systems
in-house; and 2) the plethora of development enviroments on Windows all
seem to have their own, unique ideas about how to call C code from
Fortran.  Thus, a netCDF user on a Wintel system typically installs
from scratch using the source code.

Please feel free to contact me if you need further clarification or
help.

Regards,
Steve Emmerson   <http://www.unidata.ucar.edu>