HDF5 Build and Install Instructions for Windows 2000/XP (Full Version) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The following instructions assume that the HDF5 source code package from HDF website (http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu) is used. ***************************WARNINGS************************************* Please read CAREFULLY about the following preconditions and notes first Preconditions 1. Installed Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 or Intel C compiler and WinZip. 1.1 Installed DEC Visual Fortran compiler(6.0 or higher version), or Intel Fortran compiler if you want to build HDF5 Fortran libraries. Note: By default, WinZip will convert the Unix end of line format when extracting .tar file. This conversion will cause "false" failure in some HDF5 tools testings. Please uncheck the "TAR file smart CR/LF conversion" option in your WinZip to prevent the conversion when extracting .tar file. To uncheck the "TAR file smart CR/LF conversion" option: Invoke WinZip, go to "Options", select "Configuration..." Click the "Miscellaneous" tab and uncheck "TAR file smart CR/LF conversion" option, then click OK. 2. Set up a directory structure to unpack the library. For example: c:\ (any drive) MyHDFstuff\ (any folder name) 3. Download the hdf5-1.6.3 source code package and use WinZip to extract the HDF5 package into c:\MyHDFstuff. This creates a directory called 'hdf5-1.6.3' under MyHDFstuff which contains several files and directories. Rename "hdf5-1.6.3" to "hdf5". 4. HDF5 provide options to do in-memory compress within HDF5 library. Currently, two external compression libraries zlib and szlib can be used with HDF5. 4.1 HDF5 uses zlib version 1.1.4 for compression and zlib is NOT distributed with HDF5 lib in 1.6.3 release. To use zlib library, you have to install your own zlib library or go to HDF web site (ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF/gzip/bin/windows/zlib114/) to download the zlib library. 4.2 HDF5 uses szlib(szip) for compression and szlib is distributed with HDF5 lib starting from 1.6.2 binary release. You can also download szlib source codes and binaries from ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF/szip/bin/windows. Please note that szip is not a totally open-source free software. For licensing issue of szip, please check "Licensing terms" at http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/doc_resource/SZIP/index.html. Compression feature inside HDF5 is optional. 5. Define the following environment variables: HDF5_EXT_ZLIB HDF5_EXT_SZIP HDF5_SZIP_ENCODE HDF5_EXT_ZLIB_DLL HDF5_EXT_SZIP_DLL In this section, zlib and szip are assumed to be used. Please read section V as well as this section if you do not want to use compression feature inside HDF5. To define these environment variables: Click "Start", click "Control Panel", and then double-click "System". On the "Advanced" tab, click "Environment Variables". If you are logged on as administrator to the local computer AND want to let all other users use these two environment variables, click "New" under "System Variables" box; otherwise, click "New" under "User Variables" box. In the New Variable window, set Variable name as HDF5_EXT_ZLIB and Variable value as zlib.lib, then click OK. Similarly, you can set: HDF5_EXT_SZIP environment variable as szlib.lib HDF5_SZIP_ENCODE environment variable as 1 HDF5_EXT_ZLIB_DLL environment variable as c:\zlib114\dll\zlib.lib HDF5_EXT_SZIP_DLL environment variable as szlibdll.lib. Notes: a. When setting environment variables, only include path for the zlib DLL library, as the zlib static and DLL libraries share the same name -- zlib.lib. For all other environment variables, you MUST NOT include the path. Otherwise, some of HDF5 tools tests will get unexpected results. b. If the zlib DLL library path is not C:\zlib114\dll, replace it with the correct path in the HDF5_EXT_ZLIB_DLL environment variable. c. You might have to close and reopen running programs for the new environment variable settings to take effect. d. By default, c:\zlib114\dll\zlib.dll and c:\szlib\dll\szibdll.dll should be copied into the location that the application can find, one suggestion is to use the C:\WINNT\system or C:\WINDOWS\system directory before using DLLs. 6. Set up path for external libraries and headers Skip this part if you don't want to use any compression features provided by HDF5. Please do read section V. You have to read this part is you want to only use gzip or szip. You also need to read section V. Invoke Microsoft Visual C++ and go to "Tools" and select "Options", find "Directories"; 6.1 Find the box "Show directories for", choose "Include files", If you cannot find your zlib and szlib header path (for example, C:\zlib114\include, C:\szlib\include) from the directory list, add the header path (C:\zlib114\include, C:\szlib\include) to the included directories. 6.2 Find the box "Show directories for", choose "Library files", If you cannot find your zlib and szlib library path (for example, C:\zlib114\lib, C:\szlib\lib, C:\szlib\dll) from the directory list, add the library path (C:\zlib114\lib, C:\szlib\lib, C:\szlib\dll) to the library directories. Notes 1. To build HDF5 C++ and FORTRAN libraries, please read through this document. 2. For users who want to quickly build HDF5 library or do not want to know HDF5 building and installation details, please read INSATLL_Windows_Short.txt. 3. For users who would like to build and test HDF5 package on command line, please read INSATLL_Windows_From_Command_Line.txt. 4. HDF4-related tools are not built and released with HDF5 library packages any more. To obtain HDF4-related tools, please check http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/h4toh5/ and ftp://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/h4toh5/ 5. For DLL users, please do read and follow "DLL hints" at Section IV. 6. For .NET users, please read section VI. 7. For users who would like to build, test and use HDF5 snapshot release, please read Section VII. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The following sections discuss installation procedures in detail: Section I: What do we build and install Section II: How to build and test HDF5 libraries and tools Section III: How to build an application using the HDF5 library or DLL Section IV: Helpful pointers Section V: How to disable gzip(zlib)/szip compression Section VI: How to build in HDF5 in VS 7.0(.NET) Section VII: How to build and test HDF5 snapshot release Section VIII: Misc. ************************************************************************ Section I: What do we build and install? ======================================================================== 1. Build and Install HDF5 static library: debug and release version HDF5 Dynamic Link Library(DLL): debug and release version as well as export libraries for DLL HDF5 tools: HDF5 tools 2. Build Only (Not included in the binary distribution) HDF5 tool library: debug and release version HDF5 tool export library for DLL: debug and release version HDF5 library testing programs: HDF5 library comprehensive tests HDF5 related tools testing programs: HDF5 tools comprehensive tests 3. Examples (Not included in the binary distribution) HDF5 examples: simple HDF5 C examples ************************************************************************ Section II: How to build and test HDF5 libraries and tools ======================================================================== STEP 1: Building HDF5 libraries and tools 1. Unpack all.zip Unpack all.zip in c:\MyHDFstuff\hdf5\windows directory. Files in all.zip has path hdf5\.... Make sure that you extract files into the C:\myHDFstuff directory. 2. Invoke Microsoft Visual C++ compiler Invoke Microsoft Visual C++. From the main menu, go to "File" and select the "Open Workspace" option. Then open the c:\myHDFstuff\hdf5\proj\all\all.dsw workspace. You should find windows project files listed as "all files, big files etc." on the left. 3. (Optional) HDF5 C++, Fortran libraries and Intel compiler 3.1 Skip this step if you do not want to build HDF5 C++ libraries Go to "Project" and select "dependencies"; Select "all" in the "Select project to modify:" box, then enable the desired projects: dsets_cpp dsets_cppdll hdf5_cpp hdf5_cppdll testhdf5_cpp testhdf5_cppdll 3.2 Skip this step if you do not want to build HDF5 Fortran libraries Go to "Project" and select "dependencies"; Select "all" in the "Select project to modify:" box, flush1_fortran flush2_fortran hdf5_f90cstub hdf5_fortran libtest_fortran testhdf5_fortran Note: HDF5 Fortran DLL currently does not work with DEC Fortran 6.0 and Intel compiler. 3.3 Skip this step if you are not using Intel compilers a. Intel C Compiler Go to Tools-->Select Compiler Check Intel box and click OK button. b. Intel Fortran Compiler Go to Tools-->Select Compiler Check Intel box and click OK button. Go to Tools-->Customize-->Add-ins and Macro Files and check Intel Fortran Compiler Build Tool Note: szip library is different when using Intel compiler. You should build szip source codes with Intel compiler or download binaries for Intel compiler from ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF/szip/bin/windows. The szip library and header path should also be set up accordingly (refer to precondition 6). 4. Select "Build", then Select "Set Active Configuration". In "Project configurations", select the active configuration "all -- Win32 Debug" to build debug versions of single-threaded static libraries, Debug multithreaded DLLs and tests. or "all -- Win32 Release" to build release versions of single-threaded static libraries, multithreaded DLLs and tests. Then build project "all". Warning messages can be ignored. When the debug or release build is done the directories listed below will contain the following files: c:\MyHDFstuff\hdf5\proj\hdf5\debug - hdf5d.lib- the hdf5 static library c:\MyHDFstuff\hdf5\proj\hdf5\release - hdf5.lib- the hdf5 static library c:\MyHDFstuff\hdf5\proj\hdf5dll\debug - hdf5ddll.dll- DLL hdf5ddll.lib- the DLL export library c:\MyHDFstuff\hdf5\proj\hdf5dll\release - hdf5dll.dll- DLL hdf5dll.lib- the DLL export library c:\MyHDFstuff\hdf5\test\libtest\debug - and c:\MyHDFstuff\hdf5\test\libtest\release - libtest.lib - the internal library for test c:\MyHDFstuff\hdf5\test\libtestD\debug - libtestD.dll - the internal DLL for test libtestD.lib - the internal DLL export library for test c:\MyHDFstuff\hdf5\test\libtestD\release - libtestD.dll - the internal DLL for test libtestD.lib - the internal DLL export library for test c:\MyHDFstuff\hdf5\tools\toolslib\debug - and c:\MyHDFstuff\hdf5\tools\toolslib\release - toolslib.lib- the internal tools library c:\MyHDFstuff\hdf5\tools\toolslibD\debug - and c:\MyHDFstuff\hdf5\tools\toolslibD\release - toolslibD.dll- DLL toolslibD.lib- the internal DLL export library for tools c:\MyHDFstuff\hdf5\tools\"tools directory"- where tools are located The directories listed below will contain the following files ONLY when you choose to build HDF5 c++ libraries: c:\MyHDFstuff\hdf5\proj\hdf5_cpp\debug - hdf5_cppd.lib- the HDF5 C++ API static library c:\MyHDFstuff\hdf5\proj\hdf5_cpp\release - hdf5_cpp.lib- the HDF5 C++ API static library c:\MyHDFstuff\hdf5\proj\hdf5_cppdll\debug - hdf5_cppddll.dll- the HDF5 C++ API DLL hdf5_cppddll.lib- the C++ API DLL export library c:\MyHDFstuff\hdf5\proj\hdf5_cppdll\release - hdf5_cppdll.dll- the HDF5 C++ API DLL hdf5_cppdll.lib- the C++ API DLL export library The directories listed below will contain the following files ONLY when you choose to build HDF5 Fortran libraries: c:\MyHDFstuff\hdf5\proj\hdf5_fortran\debug - hdf5_fortran.lib- the HDF5 Fortran API static library c:\MyHDFstuff\hdf5\proj\hdf5_fortran\release - hdf5_fortran.lib- the HDF5 Fortran API static library c:\MyHDFstuff\hdf5\proj\hdf5_f90sctub\debug - hdf5_f90cstubd.lib- the HDF5 C and Fortran stub static library c:\MyHDFstuff\hdf5\proj\hdf5_f90cstub\release - hdf5_f90cstub.lib- the HDF5 C and Fortran stub static library c:\MyHDFstuff\hdf5\proj\libtest_fortran\debug - libtest_fortrand.lib- the HDF5 Fortran test static library c:\MyHDFstuff\hdf5\proj\libtest_fortran\release - libtest_fortran.lib- the HDF5 Fortran test static library STEP 2: Testing HDF5 libraries and tools HDF5 libraries and tools should be tested to make sure that they were built correctly. We provide 2 options for users to test HDF5 libraries and tools. Option 1: Automatic testings HDF5 comes with various test suites, all of which can be tested with hdf5check.bat batch file in c:\MyHDFstuff\hdf5 directory. hdf5check batch file can be run with one of the following four options: hdf5check test HDF5 C library and tools only hdf5check enablecpp test HDF5 C/C++ libraries and tools To use this option, HDF5 C++ libraries must have been built in step I. hdf5check enablefortran test HDF5 C/FORTRAN libraries and tools To use this option, HDF5 Fortran libraries must have been built in step I. hdf5check enableall test HDF5 C/C++/FORTRAN libraries and tools To use this option, HDF5 C++ and Fortran libraries must have been built in step I. Invoke a command prompt window and run hdf5check with appropriate option. Test results are saved in two files: c:\MyHDFstuff\hdf5\check_results.txt c:\MyHDFstuff\hdf5\tests_results.txt. In general, you only need to check tests_results.txt. If all the tests passed, then you do not have to check check_results.txt. If some tests failed, check check_results.txt can help you figure out what was wrong. Option 2: Step-by-step HDF5 libraries and tools testings You can also test HDF5 libraries and tools one by one. There are possibly four versions of HDF5 libraries and tools testings. They are: release version release dll version debug version debug dll version We strongly suggest you to redirect your testing results into an output file so that you can easily check the testing results. You may use either Notepad or WordPad or whatever other windows word processor to check the results. For the purpose of printing, please choose font less than 14 for better alignment of the text. DLLs listed below should be placed into the Windows system directory. A batch file named install_dll.bat is included in c:\MyHDFstuff\hdf5 directory. Run this batch file and the following HDF5 DLLs will be copied to the system directory. hdf5\proj\hdf5dll\Release\hdf5dll.dll hdf5\proj\hdf5dll\debug\hdf5ddll.dll hdf5\test\libtestD\release\libtestD.dll hdf5\test\libtestD\debug\libtestDd.dll 1. HDF5 library testing cd into the hdf5\test directory. (1) basic tests Go to a) b) c) or d) to test your chosen version a) release static version type: hdf5test release >"Your output filename" b) release dll version type: hdf5test release dll > "Your output filename" c) debug static version type: hdf5test debug >"Your output filename" d) debug dll version type: hdf5test debug dll >"Your output filename" (2) timing tests Go to a) b) c) or d) to test your chosen version a) release static version type: hdf5timingtest release >"Your output filename" b) release dll version type: hdf5timingtest release dll >"Your output filename" c) debug static version type: hdf5timingtest debug >"Your output filename" d) debug dll version type: hdf5timingtest debug dll >"Your output filename" Use Notepad or WordPad to check results. You should not find any FAILED marks in your output files. 2. HDF5 tools testing To test HDF5 tools, cd back into hdf5 directory and then cd into tools directory(c:\MyHDFstuff\hdf5\tools). The HDF5 tools testing results are saved into output files in tools directory by the testhdf5tools.bat as described below. Go to a) b) c) or d) to test your chosen version a) release static version type: testhdf5tools release output file: toolstest_release.txt b) release dll version type: testhdf5tools release dll output file: toolstest_releasedll.txt c) debug static version type: testhdf5tools debug output file: toolstest_debug.txt d) debug dll version type: testhdf5tools debug dll output file: toolstest_debugdll.txt Use Notepad or WordPad to check results. You should not find any FAILED marks in your output files. 3. HDF5 C++ library test Skip this step UNLESS you have built HDF5 C++ libraries and want to test them. DLLs listed below should be placed into to the Windows system directory. A batch file named install_cppdll.bat is included in c:\MyHDFstuff\hdf5 directory. Run this batch file and the following HDF5 C++ DLLs will be copied to the system directory. hdf5\proj\hdf5_cppdll\release\hdf5_cppdll.dll hdf5\proj\hdf5_cppdll\debug\hdf5_cppddll.dll Run hdf5cpptest.bat in the hdf5\c++\test directory at the command prompt as below: hdf5cpptest release >"Your output filename" hdf5cpptest release dll >"Your output filename" hdf5cpptest debug >"Your output filename" hdf5cpptest debug dll >"Your output filename" Use Notepad or WordPad to check results. You should not find any FAILED marks in your output files. 4. HDF5 Fortran library test Skip this step UNLESS you have built HDF5 Fortran libraries and want to test them. Run testhdf5_fortran.bat at the command prompt as below: testhdf5_fortran release >"Your output filename" testhdf5_fortran debug >"Your output filename" Use Notepad or WordPad to check results. You should not find any FAILED marks in your output files. Note: Now we only support Fortran static libraries. STEP 3: Installing HDF5 Libraries We provide a batch file for users to relocate all HDF5 libraries in one folder (C++ and Fortran libraries will also be copied into this folder if they have been built in step 1). The file is called installhdf5lib.bat under c:\MyHDFstuff\hdf5 directory. Run the batch file, you may see a folder called hdf5lib under C:\myHDFstuff\hdf5. The layout of should be: release\include -- HDF5 header files release\bin -- HDF5 static tool executables release\bindll -- HDF5 DLL tool executables release\lib -- HDF5 static libraries release\dll -- HDF5 DLLs You may also find the similar layout for the . STEP 4: Building the C examples (Optional) 1. Invoke Microsoft Visual C++, go to "File" and select the "Open Workspace" option. Then open the workspace c:\myHDFstuff\hdf5\examples\allexamples\allexamples.dsw. 2. Select "Build", then Select "Set Active Configuration". In "Project configurations", select the active configuration "allexamples -- Win32 Debug" to build debug versions of the examples. or "allexamples -- Win32 Release" to build release versions the examples. When the debug build or release build is done, there should be the following subdirectories in C:\myHDFstuff\hdf5\examples\ attributetest chunkread compoundtest extendwritetest grouptest readtest selecttest writetest 3. Invoke a command prompt window and run the batch file "InstallExamples.bat" which resides in the top level directory (C:\MyHDFstuff\hdf5). This file creates 2 new directories, examplesREL and examplesDBG, in the C:\MyHDFstuff\examples directory and places all the executables in it. Both the release and debug versions of the examples should be built before this step is done. 4. We provide a batch file named testExamples.bat and an expected examples tests output file named testExamples_exp_output.txt in c:\MyHDFstuff\hdf5\examples directory for you to test the examples. testExamples.bat batch file has two options: testExamples release -- test release version of the examples testExamples debug -- test debug version of the examples Invoke a command prompt window and run testExamples with appropriate options. You should get "All HDF5 C examples tests passed." when the C examples are built successfully. Otherwise, the difference between the expected outputs and actual outputs will be given. ************************************************************************ Section III: Building an application using the HDF5 library or DLL ======================================================================== If you are building an application that uses the HDF5 library the following locations will need to be specified for locating header files and linking in the HDF libraries: \src where may be C:\MyHDFstuff\hdf5\ We assume that you will use gzip and szip compression with HDF5 library. To specify this location in the settings for your VC++ project, you may choose one of the following two methods. 1) To insert the path that specifics HDF5 and zlib, szlib header files: 1. Open your VC project in Microsoft Visual C++ and make sure it is the active project. 2. Go to the Project menu and chose the 'Settings' option. 3. Chose the build configuration you would like to modify in the drop down menu labeled with 'Settings For:' 4. Chose the C/C++ tab 5. At the bottom of the window, there should be a text-area labeled with 'Project Options:'. In this text-area, scroll until you reach the end and type /I "\src" and then click OK. To link the HDF5 library with your application: 1. Open your VC project in Microsoft Visual C++ and make sure it is the active project. 2. Go to the Project menu and chose the 'Add to Project' option and then 'Files' option. 3. Change the 'Files of type:' to 'Library Files (.lib)' 4. Navigate through the directories until you find the location of the hdf5.lib. 5. Select hdf5.lib and click OK. 6. repeat 1-5, to select zlib.lib and szlib.lib. 2) Go to tools/options/directories, 1. Insert the correct HDF5,zlib,szlib paths for both headers(include) and libraries. 2. Go to the Project menu and choose the 'Settings' option. 3. Find the "link" option and "Input" category, insert "zlib.lib, szlib.lib, hdf5.lib". To use the DLL: 1. Follow the steps for specifying the location of the header files as shown above. 2. Follow the steps for linking the HDF5 library as shown above except now link the export library that is created with the DLL. The export library is called hdf5dll.lib or hdf5ddll.lib for debug version. 3. Place the DLL in a location that Windows will be able to locate it. The searched path and order for DLL's is a) The directory where the executable module for the current process is located. b) The current directory. c} The Windows system directory. The GetSystemDirectory function retrieves the path of this directory. d) The Windows directory. The GetWindowsDirectory function retrieves the path of this directory. e) The directories listed in the PATH environment variable. 4. To modify your own application settings, please DO FOLLOW the "DLL Hints" at section IV "HELPFUL POINTERS". ************************************************************************ Section IV: HELPFUL POINTERS ======================================================================== Here are some notes that may be of help if you are not familiar with using the Visual C++ Development Environment. Project name and location issues: If you must install all.dsw and all.dsp in another directory, relative to hdf5 directory, you will be asked to locate the sub-project files, when you open the project all.dsw. If you want to rename all (the entire project), you will need to modify two files all.dsw and all.dsp as text (contrary to the explicit warnings in the files). You can also modify all.dsw and all.dsp as text, to allow these 2 files to be installed in another directory. Settings... details: If you create your own project, the necessary settings can be read from the all.dsp file(as text), or from the Project Settings in the Developer Studio project settings dialog. Project Settings C/C++ Category Code Generation Use run-time Library These are all set to use Single-Threaded DLL... hints: If you want to use DLL versions of HDF5 library in your application, you should 1) put HDF5 DLL into windows system directory 2) add HDF5 DLL export library into your project 3) Follow "Settings... details" into the last line: change Single-Threaded into Multithreaded DLL or Debug Multithreaded DLL 4) Follow "Settings.. details" into PreProcessor: Project Settings C/C++ Category PreProcessor Find PreProcessor definations and Add _HDF5USEDLL_ at the end of the PreProcessor definitions. ************************************************************************ Section V: How to disable gzip(zlib)/szip compression Warning: When you modify the H5pubconf.h file as described below, DO NOT just change the values of these macros from 1 to 0. Please DO remove(or comment out) appropriate lines. 1. Disable gzip compression If you would like to remove gzip compression from the HDF5 library, follow the steps below. 1.1 Open the H5pubconf.h file from the c:\MyHDFstuff\hdf5\src directory and remove(or comment out) the following two lines: #define H5_HAVE_ZLIB_H 1 #define H5_HAVE_FILTER_DEFLATE 1 then save the file. 1.2 Delete HDF5_EXT_ZLIB environment variable if you have set it in preconditions. 1.3 Delete HDF5_EXT_ZLIB_DLL environment variable if you have set it in preconditions. 1.4 Run-compile HDF5 library according to section II. When you disable gzip, you may get the following message when building HDF5 libraries: The following environment variables were not found $(HDF5_EXT_ZLIB) $(HDF5_EXT_ZLIB_DLL) This message can be ignored. 2. Disable szip compression (both encoder and decoder) If you would like to remove szip compression from the HDF5 library, follow the steps below. 2.1 Open the H5pubconf.h file from the c:\MyHDFstuff\hdf5\src directory and remove(or comment out) the following three lines: #define H5_HAVE_SZLIB_H 1 #define H5_HAVE_FILTER_SZIP 1 #define H5_SZIP_CAN_ENCODE 1 then save the file. 2.2 Delete HDF5_EXT_SZIP environment variable if you have set it in preconditions. 2.3 Delete HDF5_EXT_SZIP_DLL environment variable if you have set it in preconditions. 2.4 Delete HDF5_SZIP_ENCODE environment variable if you have set it in preconditions. 2.5 Run-compile HDF5 library according to section II. When you disable szip, you may get the following message when building HDF5 libraries: The following environment variables were not found $(HDF5_EXT_SZIP) $(HDF5_EXT_SZIP_DLL) This message can be ignored. Note: To disable gzip and szip at the same time, just follow 1.1~1.3 and 2.1~2.4 and run-compile HDF5 library according to section II. 3. Disable szip encoder If you would like to just disable szip encoder from the HDF5 library while keeping szip decoder enabled, follow the steps below. 3.1 Download szip library without encoder szip library is different if you want to disable szip encoder. Download szip_noencoder binaries from ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF/szip/bin/windows. The szip library and header path should also be set up accordingly (refer to precondition 6). 3.2 Open the H5pubconf.h file from the c:\MyHDFstuff\hdf5\src directory and remove (or comment out) the following line: #define H5_SZIP_CAN_ENCODE 1 then save the file. 3.3 Delete HDF5_SZIP_ENCODE environment variable if you have set it in preconditions. 3.4 Run-compile HDF5 library according to section II. ************************************************************************ Section VI: How to build HDF5 in VS 7.0(.NET) ======================================================================== We just briefly introduce you how to build HDF5 in VS 7.0(.NET); 1. Open the old workspace file with the "Open solution" option, .NET will automatically convert the data space file to solution file. 2. Then find "Build" and go to "Configuration Manager"; choose "release" or "debug", then choose "build all". 3. If you want to change some project setting, select the project and right click the button to choose Properties; find the similar menu there as in 6.0. 4. You need to specify the zlib and szip include header files and libraries under Tools->Options->Projects->VC++ Directories and choose Include and libraries under the category of "show directories for" to add the corresponding path if you want to use compression feature inside HDF5. NOTE: Please read section V if you do not want to use compression feature inside HDF5. ************************************************************************ Section VII: Building and testing HDF5 snapshot release ======================================================================== Note: This section is only for users who would like to build and test HDF5 snapshot release. If you want to test and build HDF5 snapshot release, you need extra steps to automatically generate H5Tinit.c before going to section II step 1(2). Previous step: section II, step 1(1). Extra steps: 1) After extracting all.zip to the correct path, open the c:\myHDFstuff\hdf5\misc\typegen\typegen.dsw. 2) Build the project file. 3) Invoke command prompt and go to c:\myHDFstuff\hdf5\src. 4) type H5Tinit.exe >H5Tinit.c 5) Go back to section II, continue with step 1(2). ************************************************************************ Section VIII: Misc. ======================================================================== 1) drivers we support The default driver on windows we support is sec2 driver. However, stdio driver is also supported. If you want to use stdio driver in your application, you may set environment variable HDF5_DRIVER to "stdio". On windows 2000/XP, the following steps should be followed to set the environment variable, a) Go to Control panel and find "system", b) Click "system" and choose "advanced", c) Choose Environment Variables d) Add new variable "HDF5_DRIVER" e) set the "HDF5_DRIVER" to "stdio" Reminder: if you don't want to use stdio driver, please remember to delete the environment variable "HDF5_DRIVER" or change the variable value to "sec2". Please send email to hdfhelp@ncsa.uiuc.edu for further assistance.