[netCDF #VVS-754933]: Another netcdf question in cygwin

> Ed,
> 
> I don't see the snapshot build for cygwin yet.  My earlier successful
> build in lap-top was in g77 and not g95.
> 
> Which compiler do you think works best under cygwin for netcdf.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Sankar
> 

Howdy Sankar!

Just get the source distribution from the snapshot page and build it on cygwin.

As to which compiler works best - I don't think there's a difference. In my 
experience, porting netCDF, if you get a fortran compiler working on one 
platform, you get it working on others as well. Both gfortran (which comes with 
gcc 4.x), or g95 work with netCDF on other platforms, so I would expect either 
to work fine with cygwin.

Last time I looked the cygwin installer still did not carry a f90 compiler, so 
I guess if you want f90 you must build (or get binaries for) g95 or gfortran. 
(Tell me how this goes for you because I must do the same thing).

I am attempting to add cygwin builds to the daily snapshots, but windows, as 
always, is a world unto itself, and the windows systems on our network do not 
support the testing which is easy on the Unix machines. However I am 
hand-crafting a solution for that testing problem, and hope to have cygwin in 
the nightly test soon.

Thanks,

Ed


Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: VVS-754933
Department: Support netCDF
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed