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