[netCDF #APV-976877]: ncopen error message

Good afternoon Peter,

The following links all work for me; do they still fail to open for you? 
Perhaps it was a temporary issue with the hdfgroup website.

-Ward

> 
> Hello Ward,
> 
> Thanks for the library builds. I have not had time to do much with them yet, 
> but further investigation on the hdf file that I have shows that it has been 
> set up with HDF5 formatting as it responds correctly to h5dump.exe (which I 
> have just come across). My task is to produce a browser for hdf files 
> containing our spectral data but so far I am a newcomer to the whole HDF 
> technology. In trying to access information from the HDF5 documentation I am 
> having trouble with a few of the links in the HDF5 User Guide. The following 
> links do not appear to work:-
> 
> http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/H5.format.html
> 
> http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/UG/UG_frame09Groups.html
> 
> http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/UG/UG_frame10Datasets.html
> 
> http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/UG/UG_frame11Datatypes.html
> 
> http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/UG/UG_frame12Dataspaces.html
> 
> http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/UG/UG_frame13Attributes.html
> 
> http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/UG/UG_frame13ErrorHandling.html
> 
> http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/examples/examples-by-api
> 
> I can access chapters 1, 2 and 3 ok, but nothing after that for some strange 
> reason. Any ideas what's going on here?
> 
> kind regards,
> 
> Peter.
> 
> 
> 
> > To: address@hidden
> > Subject: [netCDF #APV-976877]: ncopen error message
> > Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 10:15:44 -0600
> > CC: address@hidden
> > From: address@hidden
> >
> > Good morning Peter,
> >
> > Russ has asked me to chime in, as I've spent some time recently working 
> > with szip on Windows. As an addendum to Russ's last message, the links to 
> > the szip source Russ provided should let you build the szip.dll/szip.lib 
> > libraries you need, on Windows. You will need CMake (http://www.cmake.org/) 
> > to do so.
> >
> > I'm not sure what your build environment is, but building szip is fairly 
> > straightforward:
> >
> > 1) Install CMake http://www.cmake.org/
> > 2) Download and uncompress the szip source tree (szip-2.1) to some location.
> > 3) Open a command window
> > 4) Change directory into the szip-2.1 root directory (`cd C:\szip-2.1`)
> > 5) Create a build directory ('mkdir build')
> > 6) Change into the build directory ('cd build')
> > 7) Depending on your build environment, do one of the following:
> > == Visual Studio
> > 8) cmake ..
> > 9) After cmake completes, open the resulting visual studio project in 
> > Visual studio and compile it. The resulting libraries should be in the 
> > build/Debug/ directories.
> >
> > == MSYS/MinGW
> > 8) cmake -G"MSYS Makefiles" ..
> > 9) 'make'. The resulting libraries will be in the build/bin directory.
> >
> > These are the two build environments I have been working with, but many, 
> > many others are supported. You will need to consult the CMake documentation 
> > for the appropriate '-G' flag.
> >
> > Hopefully this will help. Have a great day,
> >
> > -Ward
> > Ward Fisher
> > address@hidden
> >
> >
> >
> > >
> > > Hi Peter,
> > >
> > > > Further to my query regarding ncdump, I am just ensuring that I have 
> > > > the correct dll's and lib's present. All is ok apart from 
> > > > 'szlibdll.lib' which has eluded me thus far; for example, the link in 
> > > > the HDFgroup documentation to download 'szlibdll.dll' and 
> > > > 'szlibdll.lib' does not work. I was wondering if you could please 
> > > > advise me on a reliable download for this file.
> > >
> > > I don't know from where to download a precompiled dll for szlib on 
> > > Windows,
> > > but the latest version is available in source form from either of these 
> > > two
> > > places:
> > >
> > > http://www.hdfgroup.org/ftp/lib-external/szip/2.1/src/szip-2.1.tar.gz
> > > or
> > > ftp://ftp.unidata.ucar.edu/pub/netcdf/netcdf-4/szip-2.1.tar.gz
> > >
> > > and it appears to be relatively easy to buld and install on Windows from 
> > > source,
> > > accorrding to these instructions in the INSTALL file in the top-level 
> > > source
> > > directory:
> > >
> > > 4. Installation for Windows platforms
> > >
> > > To install on Windows, extract project and instruction files from the
> > > szipproj.zip archive in the "windows" directory, and follow the 
> > > instructions
> > > in the INSTALL_SZIP.txt file.
> > >
> > > --Russ
> > >
> > > Russ Rew UCAR Unidata Program
> > > address@hidden http://www.unidata.ucar.edu
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> > Ticket Details
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> > Ticket ID: APV-976877
> > Department: Support netCDF
> > Priority: Normal
> > Status: Open
> >
> 
> 


Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: APV-976877
Department: Support netCDF
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed