[netCDF #WFW-324794]: Fortran libraries for NetCDF4

Hi Arjen,

> I am trying to build the NetCDF4 libraries for Intel Fortran 2014
> (Windows 7, 64-bits), as that is the compiler we are using at the moment
> for our programs. I am familiar with the CMake build configuration tool,
> so I used that to start the building process. However, I had to make
> some adjustments because of failures in the build process and finally
> I got a number of messages about unresolved external symbols.
> 
> Here is what I did:
> 
> - I downloaded the precompiled version of HDF5 (1.8.14), as NetCDF4
> requires this package and installed the libraries.

The unresolved external symbols you encountered are related to parallel I/O
support in the netCDF-C library, which requires parallel I/O support in the
HDF5 library. Building with parallel I/O support is often not required and
complicates later linking with the libraries.  For example, shared libraries
must be disabled to make use of the HDF5 parallel I/O support.

Do you really need parallel I/O?  If so, have you already installed a parallel
file system and the necessary compilers or compiler wrappers (such as mpicc
and mpif90) to support parallel I/O?

If you don't need parallel I/O, it would simplify your build and installation
process to start with an HDF5-1.8.14 library that is not configured for parallel
I/O.

If you do require parallel I/O support in netCDF Fortran, that requires that
the HDF5 C library and netCDF-C library are built with parallel I/O support.

CMake-oriented instructions for building hdf5 and netcdf-c with
parallel io support are here:

  http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/docs/cmake_faq.html


Autoconf-oriented instructions for building HDF5 and netCDF-C with
parallel I/O support are here:

  
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/docs/getting_and_building_netcdf.html#build_parallel

In either case, if you are building and installing on Windows, you
will be attempting to build and install with parallel I/O on an as yet
untested and hence unsupported configuration.

> - I downloaded the sources for NetCDF4-C (4.3.2)
> 
> - I downloaded the sources for NetCDF4-Fortran (4.4.1)
> 
> - Using CMake 2.8.10.2 with the NMake Makefile generator, I created the
> C libraries. That took some experimenting with the various CMake
> configuration variables, but that succeeded. I turned DAP support off.
> 
> - Running the tests via "nmake test", I noticed 27 failing tests - from
> the assertion messages, most of them had to do with heap space problems. I
> have not recorded the precise messages, but I can send you the report.
> 
> - Then I moved on to the Fortran bindings, ignoring the failing tests:
> 
> o CMake was complaining about a file "netcdf-targets.cmake", so I changed
> the CMake file that it referred to manually - according to the message it
> was looking for "d://share/cmake/netcdf-targets.cmake". By replacing the
> reference to "${_prefix}" by the expanded value I got the configuration
> to continue.
> 
> o The build then failed on the netcdf.h include file. Examination of
> the various generated files did not reveal how I could amend for this
> (I had specified NETCDF_C_INCLUDE_DIR at the command-line, but its value
> was not present in the flags.make file.) To work around this problem
> I simply copied the header files from the netcdf/include directory to
> netcdf-fortran/fortran .
> 
> o That did the trick in as far as the compilation succeeded. However,
> building the libraries themselves failed with several missing references:
> 
> §  nc_create_par_fortran in NF_CREATE_PAR (nf_nc4.f90)
> 
> §  nc_open_par_fortran in NF_OPEN_PAR
> 
> §  nc_var_par_access in NF_VAR_PAR_ACCESS
> 
> §  ncerr and ncopts in nf_v2compat.c
> 
> I hope you can advise me how to proceed with this, as we want to use
> the NetCDF4 library instead of a legacy library we are currently using.

The netCDF-Fortran parallel I/O configuration has as yet only been tested 
on Unix-based platforms, using an autoconf-oriented build process. So
please let us know if you get a different configuration working!

--Russ

> Kind regards,
> 
> Arjen Markus
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Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: WFW-324794
Department: Support netCDF
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed