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+ Building and installation instructions for Alpha Open VMS
+ This file is under construction
+ VMS port is not finished yet.
+ EIP April 16, 2006
+
+
+
+
+ CONTENTS
+ --------
+
+ 1. Obtaining HDF5
+ 2. Building C, Fortran and C++ libraries
+ 3. Testing HDF5 libraries and tools
+ 4. Installing HDF5 libraries
+ 5. Known problems
+
+
+ 1.Obtaining HDF5
+ Please see INSTALL file in this directory for downloading instructions.
+
+ 2. Building C, Fortran and C++ libraries
+ Use tar command to untar HDF5 source ball
+
+ tar -xvf hdf5-1.8.0-<pre>.tar
+ Change default directory to [.hdf5-1.8.0-<pre>.vms]
+ and run
+ @make
+ command. This command file will build
+ C library, tests, and utilities
+ Fortran library and tests
+ C++ library and tests
+ C, Fortran and C++ examples
+
+ IMPORTANT: Compilations flags are defined in the [.vms]make.com file of the
+ source tree. It is set up to use /float=float_ieee qualifier for C, Fortran
+ and C++ compilersi, and debug mode. If desired, those flags can be removed.
+ Do NOT REMOVE /define=H5_VMS and /standard=strict_ansi qualifiers.
+ If you have to use make.com file in a particular directory, make sure that
+ you modify the compilation flags in this file appropriately.
+
+ If make.com succeeds, the following libraries and utilties will be built:
+
+ [.src]hdf5.olb
+ [.fortran.src]hdf5_fortran.olb
+ [.c__.src]hdf5_cplus.olb
+ [.tools.h5diff]h5diff.exe
+ [.tools.h5dump]h5dump.exe
+ [.tools.h5import]h5import.exe
+ [.tools.h5jam]h5jam.exe
+ [.tools.h5jam]h5unjam.exe
+ [.tools.h5ls]h5ls.exe
+ [.tools.h5repack]h5repack.exe
+
+ 3. Testing HDF5 libraries and tools
+ You may try to run check.com files in the following directories
+
+ [.test]
+ [.fortran.test]
+ [.c__.test]
+ [.examples]
+ [.fortran.examples]
+ [.c__.examples]
+
+ 4. Installing HDF5 libraries
+ Currently one has manually copy *.olb, public *.h files and Fortran modules
+ files from
+ [.src], [.fortran.src] and [.c__.src] directories
+
+ 5. Known problems
+
+ 1. There is no support for filters including deflated compression filter and
+ szip compression filters
+ 2. There are few C and Fortran tests that fail (C mtime, Fortran file_close and
+ multifile driver tests, probably more; all major tests succeed)
+ 3. Mulitifile driver has not been tested yet
+ 4. Test scripts for some tools are missing; existing tools test scripts
+ do not compare output with the expected output.
+ 5. Probably more :-)
+
+
+ For help contact hdfhelp@hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu or help@hdfgroup.org