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authorElena Pourmal <epourmal@hdfgroup.org>2004-02-10 15:59:50 (GMT)
committerElena Pourmal <epourmal@hdfgroup.org>2004-02-10 15:59:50 (GMT)
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[svn-r8172] Purpose: Maintenance for 1.6.2 release
Description: Updated locations of the Windows zlib and szip libraries, clarified how to extract files from the archive, and changed all references from 1.6.1 to 1.6.2 Solution: N/A Platforms tested: N/A Misc. update:
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diff --git a/release_docs/INSTALL_Windows.txt b/release_docs/INSTALL_Windows.txt
index 7525900..d390ecf 100644
--- a/release_docs/INSTALL_Windows.txt
+++ b/release_docs/INSTALL_Windows.txt
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ HDF5 Build and Install Instructions for Windows 2000/XP.
----------------------------------------------------------
The instructions which follow assume that you will be using the
-source code release 'zip' file (hdf5-161.zip).
+source code release 'zip' file (hdf5-162.zip).
***************************WARNINGS****************************
Please read CAREFULLY about Preconditions first
@@ -22,16 +22,16 @@ Preconditions
directory called 'hdf5???' under MyHDFstuff which contains
several files and directories. Rename "hdf5???" to "hdf5".
- 4. HDF5 uses zlib for compression and zlib is NOT distributed
- with hdf5 lib in 1.6.1 release. You have to install your own
+ 4. HDF5 uses zlib version 1.1.4 for compression and zlib is NOT distributed
+ with hdf5 lib in 1.6.2 release. You have to install your own
zlib library or you may go to HDF web site
(ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF/gzip/)
to download the correponding zlib library. If you want to build
HDF5 library without using zlib, please read section V.
5. HDF5 uses szlib(szip) for compression and szlib is distributed
- with hdf5 lib in 1.6.1 release. You can also download szlib source
- codes and binaries from ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF/szip/windows/
+ with hdf5 lib in 1.6.2 release. You can also download szlib source
+ codes and binaries from ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF/szip/
If you want to build HDF5 library without using szlib, please read
section V.
@@ -108,13 +108,10 @@ Section II:
STEP 1: Building hdf5 libraries and non-hdf4 related tools
- 1. Unpack all.zip in 'hdf5' and move the zlib.dll from
- c:\myHDFstuff\hdf5\src\zlib\dll to the Windows system
- directory.
+ 1. Unpack all.zip in 'hdf5'. Files in the all.zip archive
+ has path hdf5\.... Make sure that you extract files into the
+ C:\myHDFstuff directory
- The system directory can usually be found under the path
- C:\WINNT\system or C:\WINDOWS\system
-
2. Invoke Microsoft Visual C++, go to "File" and select
the "Open Workspace" option.
@@ -527,7 +524,7 @@ using the Visual C++ Development Environment.
Project name and location issues:
The files in all.zip must end up in the hdf5\ directory installed by
- hdf5-1.6.1.zip
+ hdf5-1.6.2.zip
If you must install all.dsw and all.dsp in another directory,
relative to hdf5\ , you will be asked to locate the sub-project
@@ -648,7 +645,8 @@ Extra steps:
c:\myHDFstuff\hdf5\misc\typegen\typegen.dsw.
2) Build the project file.
3) Invoke command prompt and go to c:\myHDFstuff\hdf5\src.
-4) type H5Tinit.exe >H5Tinit.c
+4) type
+ H5Tinit.exe >H5Tinit.c
5) Go back to section II, continue with step 1(2).
Section VIII: