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[netCDF #UZK-379987]: Help with NetCDF Visual Studio and INTEL fortran

Hello,

It appears that you might be looking at the instructions and installers for the 
core netCDF-C library.  Unfortunately, we do not provide support for Visual 
Fortran on Windows as of yet; it is on our roadmap, but we do not currently 
have a version which is known to work in that environment. We hope to have this 
functionality soon, but in the meantime the best we can suggest is installing 
netCDF-Fortran in a Linux Virtual Machine, or using the Windows Subsystem for 
Linux.  These approaches will let you work with the Fortran interface in a 
Linux environment.

I'm sorry I can't provide a more immediate solution, I hope this helps,

-Ward


> Dear UCAR NetCDF support staff,
> I am hoping that you can help me.
> 
> I am writing (Fortran90) code that will read data from NetCDF files and
> .grib files. in Visual Fortran using the INTEL Fortran implementation.
> 
> I located the executables that are on your website for visual studio
> fortran and download the files.  However, I have a problem...ok, make that
> multiple problems that in totality result in a single summary problem.  I
> don't know ANYTHING about netCDF files other than the data I need is
> written in them...I'm not a programmer and the last time I wrote any code,
> until starting this project, was in 2009.  We do not have funding for a
> programmer and can't proceed until we can access the data.  My current
> conops is figure out what is needed and how to use it on one computer, then
> go to the admin controlled system with the list of required libraries and
> software and try to get approval to put these on the computer where the
> work is actually done.  I have to be very specific in what is needed and
> why, or it won't happen.
> 
> The first problem is I don't know which of the four executables is
> appropriate for my code/data source.   How do I determine which one is
> correct?
> 
> I have read through the UCAR documentation multiple times, but there are
> pieces missing.  For example, in one place it says "The included
> dependencies are..." and lists some locations for these files.  What I
> don't know is if I need to download the files (and if so where should they
> be put????) or if I don't need to do anything because they are already
> included.
> 
> I understand that the executables and all the associated libraries must be
> in the path and that this may require modifying the system and/or user path
> variables.  However, I have no idea what this should look like.
> 
> The instructions say that CMAKE should be used.  But don't explain how this
> is done. and where the files need to be for CMAKE to work.
> 
> Anyway all of this can be summed up as:  Could you please provide "NetCDF
> for Dummies" type instructions on how determine which files are needed, how
> to download and install them and how I can figure out the file format so
> that I can write my code to extract and process the appropriate data from
> the file?
> I don't really care if the NetCDF reader is in Fortran or not, so long as
> 1) I can get the data written in a form that my Fortran code can read, and
> 2) the final executable of my program can be device independent (no
> external program/libraries needed) and 3) it works with Visual Studio and
> Intel fortran because this is the development environment that I have.
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Sincerely,
> Heidi Terrill
> 
> 


Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: UZK-379987
Department: Support netCDF
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed
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