Re: 20000914: netcdf 3.4 compiled with MS VC++ V6

Ken Walker wrote:
> 
> John-
> Thanks for the very quick response. I appreciate the suggestion about
> netcdf 3.5. HOWEVER, I maintain this software on 4 Unix platforms, and
> would like to keep the configuration as consistent as possible. So, I
> want to avoid changing the netcdf version between Unix & NT.
> 
> Looks like you found a message I missed in my search. I successfully
> used the make files from the FTP site to build the netcdfs.lib

so you used the msoft.mak file from netcdf-3.5.win32make.ZIP to compile
netcd3.4 under VC6?
> 
> HOWEVER, I have one question. I need "multi-thread" libraries,
> and am getting conflicts when linking with my other objects.
> I suspect the problem is coming from netcdf (but can't be sure
> since I am linking objs/libs from 4 different sources!!!!)

Do you have multiple simultaneous netcdf writers or multiple readers?

> 
> Quite frankly I am no expert reading MS VC++ nmake files.
> Do you have any idea if this nmake creates a multi-thread library?
> Any insights are appreciated.


What do you mean by "multi-thread" libraries? I'm not an expert either.

> 
> -Ken Walker
> 
> At 03:30 PM 9/14/2000 -0600, you wrote:
> >Hi Ken:
> >
> >> I have perused your netCDF site in hopes of an answer. I am trying to
> >build an application that uses the netCDF 3.4 libraries.
> >
> >> The environment is: NT 4 SP3 using Microsoft Visual C++ V6. I found the
> >prebuilt libraries/dlls built with MS VC++ V5. I also found the nmake files
> >for V5. Do you know if the V6 version is supported??  Can I just use the V5
> >nmake files with V6??
> >
> >-----------------------------------
> >
> >1) you might want to use netcdf 3.5 instead. Its almost our standard version:
> >
> >  ftp://ftp.unidata.ucar.edu/pub/netcdf/netcdf-3.5-beta3.ZIP
> >
> >2) I suspect you need to recompile for VC6, but I'm not positive. The
> >premade binaries are at
> >
> ftp://ftp.unidata.ucar.edu/pub/netcdf/contrib/win32/netcdf-3.5.win32bin.ZIP.
> >and you might want to give them a try first.
> >
> >3) I'm appending a message from someone who successfully compiled under VC6
> >without changing the 3.5 make file.  Get the 3.5 make files from
> >
> >
> >ftp://ftp.unidata.ucar.edu/pub/netcdf/contrib/win32/netcdf-3.5.win32make.ZIP
> >
> >Regards, John
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Richard McDonald [mailto:address@hidden] Sent: Tuesday, October 26,
> >1999 7:21 AM
> >To: John Caron
> >Subject: RE: 19991022: netCDF in microsoft visual studio (Macros)
> >
> >Thanks for the reply, Ive got netcdf v3.5 working on VC++ v 6.0 (Under
> >Windows 98) in an MFC application just fine(so far...). I did no
> >modifications to the msoft.mak and when running the test in /nc_test i got
> >no failures...My problem, Im embarrassed to say, was that i was not linking
> >to the library in the project settings link tab. Also FYI, I was able to
> >compile and run successfully an example program given in your support
> >database - Subject: Re: 19990924: nc_inc_var of netcdf....
> >
> 
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