[svn-r13137] Updating windows installation file includes:

limitation of support 64-bit with visual studio 2005
How to test with 1.6 compatible 

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 11 deletions

diff --git a/release_docs/INSTALL_Windows.txt b/release_docs/INSTALL_Windows.txt
index 0e60a21..51605f6 100644
--- a/release_docs/INSTALL_Windows.txt
+++ b/release_docs/INSTALL_Windows.txt
@@ -252,8 +252,8 @@ STEP 1: Building HDF5 libraries and tools
       You should find windows project files listed as "all files, 
       big files etc." on the left.        
 
-   3. (Optional)HDF5 C++, Fortran libraries, HL-CPP, 
-      HL-Fortran and Intel compiler
+   3. (Optional)HDF5 C++, Fortran libraries, High level C++, 
+      High level Fortran and Intel compiler
     
       3.1 Skip this step if you do not want to build HDF5 C++ libraries
         
@@ -2245,13 +2245,11 @@ by other compilers.
    Go back to Section II, Step I(2) to Build, test and install HDF5 
    libary and tools.
 ========================================================================
-Section XI: How to build HDF5 in Visual studio 2005 on windows 64-bit platform
+Section XI: How to build HDF5 in Visual studio 2005 on windows 32-bit and 64-bit platform
 ========================================================================
- Currently we only support HDF5 as an 32-bit application on windows 64-bit
-platform.
- 
  The building procedure is almost the same as building HDF5 on .Net 2003.
- You may need to pay attention to the following reminders:
+ For 64-bit, currently we only support HDF5 as an 32-bit application and you may need to 
+ pay attention to the following reminders:
  1) To use zlib or szlib compression packages:
     Use zlib 1.2.2 DLL provided at
     ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF/lib-external/zlib/1.2/bin/zlib122-windows.tar.gz
@@ -2260,8 +2258,9 @@ platform.
  2) Make sure that WIN32 macro is set at visual studio 2005. 
  3) You may use _CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE to disable the warnings.
  Please refer to Section VI: How to build HDF5 in Visual Studio .Net 2003.
-
-  
+ Please also note that the example workspace may not work properly. You may need to reset hdf5 
+ library path.
+ 
 ========================================================================
                             Section XII: Misc.
 ========================================================================
@@ -2355,6 +2354,12 @@ using the Visual C++ Development Environment.
          General->Predefined Preprocess or Symbols, and add 
          "HDF5F90_WINDOWS" to use HDF5 Fortran DLL.
 
-
+3. Backward compatibility with 1.6
+    If you are going to use 1.6 APIs with 1.8 branch, you may do the following two things:
+    3.1 Uncomment out /*#define H5_WANT_H5_V1_6_COMPAT 1*/ inside h5pubconf.h under windows\src.
+    3.2 Set up an environment variable H5_WANT_H5_V1_6_COMPAT to 1, this will be used to test compatibility
+        of error APIs.
+    Remember to undo 1 and 2 after you test if you are not going to use 1.6 backward compatibility option.
+    
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- Please send email to hdfhelp@ncsa.uiuc.edu for further assistance.
+ Please send email to hdfhelp@hdfgroup.org for further assistance.