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Good afternoon Murty, The latest version of the netCDF-C libraries for Windows are the netCDF 4.3.0 release candidate 4, released today. The source code and online documentation may be found here: https://www.unidata.ucar.edu/downloads/netcdf/netcdf-rc/index.jsp The binary downloads and documentation are available here: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/docs_rc/winbin.html The specific information that will be of use to you depends on how you want to build/use the netCDF-C libraries in Windows. Building netCDF-C from source in a Windows environment using Visual Studio requires the CMake utility, available from http://www.cmake.org. If you are building netCDF-C from source in Windows using the MSYS or Cygwin environments, you may follow the standard linux compilation instructions. Note that cygwin compatible netCDF-C libraries are available on Windows through the cygwin package manager. Please note that the pre-built libraries were built under Windows 7, using Visual Studio 10. Other versions should work, but have not been tested. I hope this is enough information to get you started; if any other questions come up, please feel free to ask. Have a great evening, -Ward address@hidden > I here by request some direction on the netCDF libraries for Windows for > 32bit and 64bit windows machines. > What is the best way of doing this. I also heard that we can down-load > pre-compiled versions for use in Windows. Any information on this will > be highly appreciated. > Regards, > Murty > > Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: MAX-132149 Department: Support netCDF Priority: Normal Status: Open