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@@ -1,14 +1,13 @@ -*- outline -*- -This file contains instructions for the installation of HDF5 on -Unix-like systems. Users of the Intel TFLOPS machine should see the -INSTALL.ascired for instructions. +This file contains instructions for the installation of HDF5 software. * Obtaining HDF5 The latest supported public release of HDF5 is available from - ftp://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/pub/dist/HDF5 and is available in tar - format uncompressed or compressed with compress, gzip, or - bzip2. + ftp://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/pub/dist/HDF5. For Unix platforms, it + is available in tar format uncompressed or compressed with + compress, gzip, or bzip2. For Microsoft Windows, it is in + ZIP format. The HDF team also makes snapshots of the source code available on a regular basis. These snapshots are unsupported (that is, @@ -63,6 +62,14 @@ INSTALL.ascired for instructions. $ make check $ make install +** TFLOPS + Users of the Intel TFLOPS machine, after reading this file, + should see the INSTALL.ascired for more instructions. + +** Windows + Users of Microsoft Windows should see the INSTALL_Windows.txt + for detailed instructions. + * HDF5 dependencies ** Zlib The HDF5 library has a predefined compression filter that uses @@ -169,11 +176,17 @@ INSTALL.ascired for instructions. $ CC=/usr/local/mpi/bin/mpicc ./configure - On Irix64 the default compiler is `cc -64'. To use an + On Irix64 the default compiler is `cc'. To use an alternate compiler specify it with the CC variable: $ CC='cc -o32' ./configure + One may also use various environment variables to change the + behavior of the compiler. E.g., to ask for -n32 ABI: + $ SGI_ABI=-n32 + $ export SGI_ABI + $ ./configure + *** Additional compilation flags If addtional flags must be passed to the compilation commands then specify those flags with the CFLAGS variable. For @@ -313,42 +326,9 @@ INSTALL.ascired for instructions. *** Parallel vs. serial library The HDF5 library can be configured to use MPI and MPI-IO for - parallelizm on a distributed multi-processor system. The easy - way to do this is to have a properly installed parallel - compiler (e.g., MPICH's mpicc or IBM's mpcc) and supply that - executable as the value of the CC environment variable: - - $ CC=mpcc ./configure - $ CC=/usr/local/mpi/bin/mpicc ./configure - - If no such wrapper script is available then you must specify - your normal C compiler along with the distribution of - MPI/MPI-IO which is to be used (values other than `mpich' will - be added at a later date): - - $ ./configure --enable-parallel=mpich - - If the MPI/MPI-IO include files and/or libraries cannot be - found by the compiler then their directories must be given as - arguments to CPPFLAGS and/or LDFLAGS: - - $ CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/mpi/include \ - LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/mpi/lib/LINUX/ch_p4 \ - ./configure --enable-parallel=mpich - - If a parallel library is being built then configure attempts - to determine how to run a parallel application on one - processor and on many processors. If the compiler is mpicc - and the user hasn't specified values for RUNSERIAL and - RUNPARALLEL then configure chooses `mpirun' from the same - directory as `mpicc': - - RUNSERIAL: /usr/local/mpi/bin/mpirun -np 1 - RUNPARALLEL: /usr/local/mpi/bin/mpirun -np $${NPROCS:=2} + parallelizm on a distributed multi-processor system. Read the + file INSTALL_parallel for detailed explanations. - The `$${NPROCS:=2}' will be substituted with the value of the - NPROCS environment variable at the time `make check' is run - (or the value 2). ** Building The library, confidence tests, and programs can be build by |