How to build netcdf 3.6.0p1 as a dynamic shared library on Mac OS X?

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• Subject: How to build netcdf 3.6.0p1 as a dynamic shared library on Mac OS X?
• From: "Sean McBride" <sean@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2005 10:41:44 -0400

Hello all!

I was wondering if anyone here has built netcdf 3.6.0p1 as a dynamic
shared library (.dylib), as opposed to a static library (.a) on Mac OS
X? (10.4 and gcc 4 to be exact).

I ask because static libraries, at least on OS X, do not work well
across different compilers or even compiler versions. As an example,
several 3rd party libraries that I use built with gcc 3.3 will not link
in a gcc 4 application.  And so I am investigating building all
libraries as dynamic instead of static.

I am not very familiar with the configure/make build system, but for
other 3rd party libs that I use, I was able to build as dynamic like so:

./configure --enable-shared --disable-static
make

but in the netcdf case, while no error is given for those parameters, I
still end up with only static libraries.

I'd greatly appreciate any help,

Thanks a lot!

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Sean McBride, B. Eng                 sean@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Rogue Research                        www.rogue-research.com 
Mac Software Developer              Montréal, Québec, Canada

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