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diff --git a/release_docs/INSTALL_Windows.txt b/release_docs/INSTALL_Windows.txt index 1facd81..20d62cf 100644 --- a/release_docs/INSTALL_Windows.txt +++ b/release_docs/INSTALL_Windows.txt @@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ Preconditions: 6.2 HDF5 uses Szip version 2.0 for compression and Szip compression - software is provided with HDF5 products in 1.8.0 release. To use + software is provided with HDF5 products in 1.8.1 release. To use Szip 2.0 library, you can download Szip source codes and binaries from ftp://ftp.hdfgroup.org/lib-external/szip/2.1/bin/windows @@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ Preconditions: Notes: - 1. In release 1.8.0, all.zip is deprecated. Users should go to hdf5/windows + 1. As of 1.8.0, all.zip is deprecated. Users should go to hdf5/windows directory, run copy_hdf.bat first and then open all.dsw under hdf5/windows/proj/all to start building process. @@ -410,6 +410,16 @@ STEP 2: Testing HDF5 Libraries and Tools HDF5 libraries and tools should be tested to make sure that they were built correctly. +Note: The complete testing suite can take a long time to run on even fast + machines. Some of the longer tests can be automatically shortened by + defining an environment variable HDF5TestExpress. Set HDF5TestExpress + to 3 for fastest, or 0 for slowest. For example: + + set HDF5TestExpress=3 + + If the variable is unset, it takes on the value 1. + + We provide 2 options for users to test HDF5 libraries and tools. Option 1: Automatic testings @@ -1416,9 +1426,9 @@ to the earlier sections of this document for details on building and testing. Posix Threads for Windows is a open source free software. Users can download it from http://sources.redhat.com/pthreads-win32/. - HDF5 release 1.8.0 supports Pthread-Win32 2.7.0 (2005-06-04) or later. Since - pthreadVC2.dll used by HDF5 1.8.0 is the release version dll of - pthread-win32, ONLY HDF5 1.8.0 release dll are supported and tested on + HDF5 release 1.8 supports Pthread-Win32 2.7.0 (2005-06-04) or later. Since + pthreadVC2.dll used by HDF5 1.8 is the release version dll of + pthread-win32, ONLY HDF5 1.8 release dll are supported and tested on Windows XP. Pre2. Set Path for Pthread-Win32 header and library |