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author | Elena Pourmal <epourmal@hdfgroup.org> | 2004-02-10 15:59:50 (GMT) |
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committer | Elena Pourmal <epourmal@hdfgroup.org> | 2004-02-10 15:59:50 (GMT) |
commit | a3b6e077704497e4265510131bd80ff58790faba (patch) | |
tree | 876cf405a96601ad0a5c8c6923d4c1f48c790d8f /release_docs | |
parent | dfb626f53ea9dec6c8d252516f4a2f3d1af135bd (diff) | |
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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:
Diffstat (limited to 'release_docs')
-rw-r--r-- | release_docs/INSTALL_Windows.txt | 24 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 13 deletions
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: |