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> <font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" > size="2">Hello,<br />my name is Johannes Uhl, I am a student and work at > the University of Karlsruhe, Germany in the area of ocean modelling. In > order to use NetCDF as an interface between an ocean modelling program > written in Fortran(Princeton Ocean Model) and Matlab, I want to create > an netcdf file. For this, I have to include the NetCDF library. <br />I > compile with GNU Fortran g77, but there is a problem in incuding the > netcdf library. I suppose that I don't have the appropriate library, > beacus the library file is called netcdf.lib, but g77 needs a file > libnetcdf.a<br />How do I get this file? I read something about building > it? How??? Or can I download it anywhere?<br />My configuration is: > Windos XP, Fortran GNU g77.<br />It may seem a stupid question to you, > but I'm new it this area and never had much to do with fortran / > programming before.<br /><br />Thank you for your help,<br /><br />with > best regards,<br /><br />Johannes Uhl<br /><br />University Karlsruhe / > Germany<br />Institute of Water development<br /></font> > > > Howdy Johannes! How are you compiling g77? From the DOS command line? Or are you using cygwin? Or some other UNIX shell on Windows? Thanks, Ed Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: UCX-847770 Department: Support netCDF Priority: Normal Status: Open