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Unidata Support wrote: > > >To: <address@hidden> > >From: "zhao jingfeng" <address@hidden> > >Subject: asking Install for WinNT > >Organization: > >Keywords: 200011081059.eA8Axn423112 > > Dear, Sir > > I hope to use netCDF with Digital Fortran on the platform of Windows > NT4.0, what version of Digital Fortran ? what version of Visual C++ ? look under "Help - About Developer Studio" > Now, I downloaded the netcdf-3.5-beta5.win32.bin.zip (and > ...win32make.zip) . Flowing the instruction of "Readme", I failed to install > the software in My computer. > > Step: 1 > > (1) I copied "necdf.inc" into "...\Fortran\df\include\...". > (2) Copyied "netcdf.dll","ncgen.exe"and "ncdump.exe" into > "...\Fortran\Df\bin\.." > (3) Copied "netcdf.lib" into "...\Fortran\Df\lib\..". > > Step: 2 > > Do I need to do the Step 2 for building the libraries yet? If do it, I > don't know how to run the command of "..nmake /f msoft.mak". In my case, I > had run this command under the "MS-DOS" mode, howeve, the error massage > shows as: > "Nmake:fatal error"U1073:don't know how to make '..\libsrc\netcdf.h' " > " Stop." you dont need to build the libraries if you use the prebuilt binaries in netcdf-3.5-beta5.win32.bin.zip. adding to include and lib directories should have worked. you should be able to use netdf from Digital Fortran. what error are you seeing? > > Step: 3 > > I hope deal with my Fotran codes with "visual studio" , How to duplacate > the macros define, and to define the NDEBUG to turn off the assertion? > > Step: 4 > > How to run the testing programe about fortran codes (copy them into the > enviroment of Fortran or not)? In addtion, when I try to run the nc_test > suite, no fortran codes can be found there (only 'getopt.c' 'msoft.mak' and > 'msofts.mak' existed). you have to download the netcdf source seperately. but as i said, you shouldnt have to remake the libraries.