Re: 20050304: netCDF Fortran (77 + 90) - Failure of prebuilt libraries (fwd)

>>To: address@hidden
>>From: "Gary Moore" <address@hidden>
>>Subject: netCDF Fortran (77 + 90) - Failure of prebuilt libraries
>>Organization: UCAR/Unidata
>>Keywords: 200503042339.j24NdwV9019166
>
> Institution: Earth tech
> Package Version: version 3.6.0
> Operating System: Window 2000 and XP
> Hardware Information: Intel P4 and AMD XP (no Athlon-64\'s)
> Inquiry: Lahey Computer
> LF95 Pro v5.6
> Problem: Onerous changes are required to make executables and one must 
> include 
> the MSVC linker. Name mangling used by UNIDATA is not standard according to 
> Lahey support staff. I need a foolproof, simple static library that people 
> who 
> have no adminstrative rights to install software like the visual C++ linker 
> can link to. It seems that writing a kluge atop NCDUMP and NCGEN is my only 
> hope - this is a far, far cry from NETCDF's original goal for transparency. 
> Can UNIDATA do something for the corporate IS disabled? We do have to use EPA 
> data sets which are being supplied (horrors) as NETCDF. If it were not for 
> the 
> laborious effort at programming around the unsigned integer oversight on the 
> typical fortran compiler I would tackle a reprogramming in pure fortran 95 
>>From the XDR up. Has anybody done that?????
>

Gary,

I'm aware that there are problems with the fortran libraries in the
windows binaries.

Have you tried to build from the source? The fortran name mangling is
caused by a package that creates a fortran interface from C code, and
this is configurable when building from source.

Ed
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Ed Hartnett  -- address@hidden