[netCDF #GAW-821062]: netcdf on Mac OS X

Hi Wendi,

I just verified that the netcdf 3.6.2 source distribution works fine
without --enable-shared on an up-to-date G4 Mac, so I think static
linking still works.  Here's some details:

$ sw_vers
ProductName:    Mac OS X
ProductVersion: 10.4.10
BuildVersion:   8R218

$ gfortran --version
GNU Fortran 95 (GCC) 4.3.0 20061223 (experimental)

$ ./configure --prefix=/Users/russ/netcdf/releases
   ...
$ make check
   ...
[Some warning messages, but all tests succeeded]
$ make install
[Installs libraries and executables under /Users/russ/netcdf/releases/lib/,
bin/, include/, etc.]

To link a Fortran program to the newly installed library, this seems to work:

$ gfortran -I/Users/russ/netcdf/releases/include -c simple_xy_wr.f90

which creates simple_xy_wr.o, then to link to the library, I had to
give the absolute pathname of the netCCDF library.

$ gfortran -o simple_xy_wr simple_xy_wr.o
/Users/russ/netcdf/releases/lib/libnetcdf.a

I think the following more conventional way of linking is supposed to
work, and I'm not sure why it doesn't, but it seems like a gfortran or
MacOS X issue, not a netCDF issue:

$ gfortran -o simple_xy_wr simple_xy_wr.o -L/Users/russ/netcdf/releases/lib
-lnetcdf
/usr/bin/ld: Undefined symbols:
___netcdf__nf90_close
___netcdf__nf90_create
___netcdf__nf90_def_dim
___netcdf__nf90_def_var_manydims
___netcdf__nf90_enddef
___netcdf__nf90_put_var_2d_fourbyteint
___netcdf__nf90_strerror
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

So if you can link the first way, by naming the static library, it
should work for you.  I'll try to find out whether there is a
workaround that makes the second method work as it is supposed to.

--Russ

Russ Rew                                         UCAR Unidata Program
address@hidden                     http://www.unidata.ucar.edu



Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: GAW-821062
Department: Support netCDF
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed