[netCDF #APV-976877]: ncopen error message

Good afternoon Peter,

The file 'hdf5.h' is part of the HDF5 distribution, provided by the HDF5 group. 
 The source code for HDF5 is available at the following address:

http://www.hdfgroup.org/ftp/HDF5/current/src/

The pre-built hdf5 libraries are also available at: 

http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/release/obtain5.html

They have a number of different packages, organized by development platform and 
development environment.  Hopefully this should be enough to get you going!

-Ward

> 
> Hello Ward,
> 
> I am trying to compile the simple C++ source file attached which is intended 
> to read an hdf5 test file that I have. Can you tell me how to download the 
> source file "hdf5.h" from your site and also I will need to link to the HDF5 
> library to access the functions I call, so some precompiled version of this 
> is needed. This should initially get me off the ground. (This is a new query, 
> so maybe a new ticket is necessary).
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Peter Brigden.
> 
> 
> 
> > To: address@hidden
> > Subject: [netCDF #APV-976877]: ncopen error message
> > Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 15:12:54 -0600
> > CC: address@hidden; address@hidden
> > From: address@hidden
> >
> > 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
> > > >
> > >
> > >
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> > Ticket Details
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> > Ticket ID: APV-976877
> > Department: Support netCDF
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> > Status: Closed
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Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: APV-976877
Department: Support netCDF
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed