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+************************************************************************
+  Building instructions for HDF5 with MPICH on Windows
+************************************************************************
+
+Preconditions:
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+1. Installed MPICH for Windows. These instructions assume you have MPICH in C:\MPICH
+
+   To install MPICH for Windows see
+   http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/mpi/mpich/mpich-nt/
+
+2. Installed HDF5 with multi-treaded DLL support. To install HDF5 with multi-treaded DLL
+   see /release_docs/INSTALL_Windows.txt
+  
+
+Build HDF5 with MPICH
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+These instructions explain how to build the following projects that use the MPICH
+library in HDF5:
+
+1. testphdf5. Tests the HDF5 interface to MPICH
+2. t_mpi. Tests some MPICH functions
+3. ph5diff. Runs the h5diff tool in parallel mode
+
+To run these projects in Windows do:
+
+1. Define the following environment variable: 
+
+        HDF5_EXT_MPICH
+
+        as
+
+        mpich.lib
+
+   For instructions about defining environment variables see /release_docs/INSTALL_Windows.txt
+        
+2. Open the \hdf5\windows\proj\all\all.dsw workspace. 
+     
+3. Load each one of the above projects to the workspace. To load a project, 
+   right click on the root workspace icon and menu select 'Insert Project into Workspace'
+   The projects are located in \hdf5\windows\testpar
+
+4. Add the following additional include and library directories to the Visual Studio environment
+
+   C:\MPICH\SDK\Include
+   C:\MPICH\SDK\Lib 
+
+   This can be done either globally in the menu Tools/Options/Directories 
+   or for each one of the projects hdf5dll, libtestD and toolslibD only (under the C++/Preprocessor 
+   tab dialog)
+        
+5. Add dependencies of hdf5dll, libtestD  to each of the following projects: 
+
+	testphdf5
+	t_mpi
+        ph5diff
+
+
+    For ph5diff, dependencies should also include toolslibD.
+
+6. Before building each one of those projects, hdf5/src/h5pubconf.h has to be modified 
+    to have parallel on windows enabled. For this uncomment the following line
+   
+    #define H5_HAVE_PARALLEL 
+
+7. Manually build hdf5dll, libtestD, toolslibD, testphdf5, t_mpi, ph5diff
+
+Note regarding testing the projects and HDF5 multi-threaded DLL installation
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+Since the hdf5dll, libtestD, toolslibD projects were rebuild in step 7 they have to be reinstalled,
+that is, copied to the Windows system folder.
+For more details see /release_docs/INSTALL_Windows.txt.
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+Need further assistance, email hdfhelp@ncsa.uiuc.edu