Howdy all!
I have recently been working on a new way of building netCDF for windows
(i.e. netCDF DLLs).
The goal for the 4.1.2 release is a set of netCDF C DLLs and utilities,
which do not have the opendap client, but do have full access to
netCDF-4/HDF5 files. This means that users must also have the HDF5 and
zlib DLLs. Furthermore, the generally available HDF5 and zlib DLLs are
not right for this. So I built and included copies of these DLLs as
well.
I need some hardy windows programmers to test out the result. Get the
file from:
ftp://ftp.unidata.ucar.edu/pub/netcdf/netcdf-4/netcdf_4.1.2-beta3_dll.zip
Unzip this file and you will find a directory called "in1". Under there
are bin, lib, include, and share directories. The bin directory contains the
utilities (as well as all the HDF5 ones) and the DLLs. The netCDF header
is in the include directory, documentation under the share directory.
The utilities (ncdump, ncgen, nccopy) all have "mingw32-" prepended to
their name. The netCDF DLL is called cygnetcdf-7.dll.
If anyone would like to give these a try and let me know how they work
(responding to me, not the list), that would be most helpful. It's very
important to tell me if these worked for you, not just if they
failed. ;-)
I have not yet generated the (windows-only) .lib file. Is this file
really needed? Seems like the utilities are accessing the DLLs just fine
without it.
Thanks!
Ed
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Ed Hartnett -- ed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
