[netCDF #EYK-498207]: Re: Netcdf4 on Windows

Hi Chelle,

> Roy Mendelssohn said that you had talked to him about porting NetCDF4
> to windows.
> 
> I'm just a scientist & we don't really have a sysadmin to do this
> sort of thing, so I
> have to figure it all out myself.
> 
> I have VS2008 & intel fortran 11.1
> 
> I have the Christophe Gohlke build downloaded from the site below.
> 
> I have copied the .dll to my computer & can get ncdump to work correctly.
> 
> I can't seem to get my compiler to work with netcdf4.

Sorry, but we were not able to complete a successful build from
the Gohlke download either, because it apparently depended on some other 
software that we did not have installed.  We're unable to answer questions
about building from that port.

However, we have just announced availability of a release candidate for
netCDF version 4.2.1 that has been ported to Windows:

  
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/mailing_lists/archives/netcdfgroup/2012/msg00203.html

This has some advantages over Gohlke's port:

  - Unidata is committed to provide user support for this port.
  - It has bug fixes, performance enhancements, and new features not available 
in
    the 4.1.3 version of netCDF from over a year ago.
  - Future changes to the software will be tested before release in a Windows 
    development environment, to make sure they don't break the Windows port.

My recommendation is to build the netCDF-4.1.2 C library from this release 
candidate
or from the final release, which may be the same if we don't get significant 
bug 
reports.

Then get one of the two separate netCDF-Fortran releases (4.2 or 4.4-beta1)

  http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/downloads/netcdf/netcdf-fortran/

and build that, specifying where the netCDF-C library on which it depends was 
installed.

Good luck, and let us know if you run into problems with version 4.2.1!

--Russ

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



Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: EYK-498207
Department: Support netCDF
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed