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authorScott Wegner <swegner@hdfgroup.org>2007-08-08 22:51:43 (GMT)
committerScott Wegner <swegner@hdfgroup.org>2007-08-08 22:51:43 (GMT)
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[svn-r14056] Purpose: Take advantage of new H5_HAVE_SIGLONGJMP flag in H5detect.c
Description: Visual Studio does not have the function siglongjmp. Therefore, we have created a new configure flag H5_HAVE_SIGLONGJMP that tests for this. We use this within H5detect.c. Tested: VS.NET h5committest
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-rw-r--r--release_docs/INSTALL_Windows.txt16
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/release_docs/INSTALL_Windows.txt b/release_docs/INSTALL_Windows.txt
index 5994cb2..84eec13 100644
--- a/release_docs/INSTALL_Windows.txt
+++ b/release_docs/INSTALL_Windows.txt
@@ -1916,21 +1916,12 @@ To generate your own H5tinit.c, follow the steps below.
1. Open the solution typegen.sln from the folder .\windows\misc\typgen.
- 2. Edit the code
-
- Open the source file H5detect.c, and remove or comment the line:
-
- siglongjmp(jbuf_g, 1);
-
- This function is unsupported on Windows, and will cause Visual Studio
- 2005 to crash.
-
- 3. Build H5tinit.exe
+ 2. Build H5tinit.exe
Make sure your configuration is set to Debug, and build the project.
This will generate H5tinit.exe in the .\src folder.
- 4. Create H5tinit.c
+ 3. Create H5tinit.c
From a command prompt, go to the .\src directory and issue the command:
.\H5tinit.exe > H5tinit.c
@@ -1940,8 +1931,7 @@ To generate your own H5tinit.c, follow the steps below.
Note:
If you are building on 64-bit Windows, make sure you set your build
- "Machine Type" to "X64". Also, you will need to comment out any lines
- referencing "siglongjmp", as this function is not present on 64-bit Windows.
+ "Machine Type" to "X64".
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Section XIII: Misc.