HDF5 Build and Install Instructions for Windows 2000/XP. ---------------------------------------------------------- The instructions which follow assume that you will be using the source code release 'zip' file (hdf5-160.zip). ***************************WARNINGS**************************** Please read CAREFULLY about Preconditions before you go to the following sections Preconditions 1. Installed MicroSoft Developer Studio,Visual C++ 6.0 and WinZip. 2. Set up a directory structure to unpack the library. For example: c:\ (any drive) MyHDFstuff\ (any folder name) 4. HDF5 uses zlib for compression and zlib is NOT distributed with hdf5 lib in 1.6.??? release. You have to install your own zlib library or you may go to HDF web site (ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF/gzip/) to download the correponding zlib library by yourself. If you want to build HDF5 library without using zlib, please read section V. 5. 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/ 6. For .NET users, please go to section VI. 7. For DLL users, please do read and follow "DLL hints" at Section IV. 8. 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: Building and testing hdf5 libraries and non-hdf4 related hdf5 tools tools Section III: Building an application using the HDF5 library or DLL Section IV: Some more helpful pointers Section V: Disable gzip compression Section VI: How to build in HDF5 in VS 7.0(.NET) Section VII: Build and test HDF5 snapshot release Section VIII: Misc. *************************************************************** Section I: What do we 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 tool library: debug and release version HDF5 tool export library for DLL: debug and release version HDF5 tools: non-hdf4 related tools HDF5 library testing programs: hdf5 library related comprehensive tests HDF5 related tools testing programs: hdf5 tools testing programs HDF5 examples: simple HDF5 examples NOTE: ** We use zlib 1.1.4 for both binary and source release. ** ************************************************************** Section II: Building and testing hdf5 libraries and non-hdf4 related tools ================================================== STEP 1: Building hdf5 libraries and non-hdf4 related tools 1. Unpack all.zip in 'hdf5' and move the zlib.dll from c:\myHDFstuff\hdf5\src\zlib\dll to the Windows system directory. The system directory can usually be found under the path C:\WINNT\system or C:\WINDOWS\system 2. Invoke Microsoft Visual C++, go to "File" and select the "Open Workspace" option. Then open the c:\myHDFstuff\hdf5\proj\all\all.dsw workspace. 3. Select project hdf5dll, right click mouse; choose settings, find "Link", go to the Category box and choose "Input", go to the box "Object/library modules" and go to the end of the line; see whether the zlib dll library path is the same as C:\zlib114\dll or the correct path where you install your dll export library. If not, replace the old zlib dll library path with the correct path. You should do this for both Debug and release version. 4. Go to "Tools" and select "Options", find "Directories"; 4.1 Find the box "Show directories for", choose "Include files", If you cannot find your zlib header path(for example, C:\zlib114\include) from the directory list, add the header path(C:\zlib114\include) to the included directories. 4.2 Find the box "Show directories for", choose "Library files", If you cannot find your zlib library path(for example, C:\zlib114\lib) from the directory list, add the library path(C:\zlib114\lib) to the included directories. 5. Select "Build", then Select "Set Active Configuration". On Windows platform select as 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. 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 - c:\MyHDFstuff\hdf5\proj\hdf5\release - hdf5.lib- the hdf5 library c:\MyHDFstuff\hdf5\proj\hdf5dll\debug - hdf5ddll.dll- the hdf5 library hdf5ddll.lib- the dll export library c:\MyHDFstuff\hdf5\proj\hdf5dll\release - hdf5dll.dll- the hdf5 library hdf5dll.lib- the dll export library c:\MyHDFstuff\hdf5\test\"test directory"- where test directory is one of the following: big(dll) bittests(dll) chunk(dll) cmpd_dset(dll) dsets(dll) dtypes(dll) enum(dll) extend(dll) external(dll) fillval(dll) flush1(dll) flush2(dll) gheap(dll) hyperslab(dll) iopipe(dll) istore(dll) links(dll) mount(dll) mtime(dll) ohdr(dll) overhead(dll) stab(dll) testhdf5(dll) unlink(dll) c:\MyHDFstuff\hdf5\tools\toolslib\debug c:\MyHDFstuff\hdf5\tools\toolslib\release toolslib.lib- the tools library c:\MyHDFstuff\hdf5\tools\toolslibD\debug c:\MyHDFstuff\hdf5\tools\toolslibD\release toolslibD.lib- the dll export library c:\MyHDFstuff\hdf5\tools\"tools directory"- where non-hdf4 related tools directory is one of the following: h5dump(dll) h5ls(dll) h5debug(dll) h5import(dll) h5repart(dll) gifconv(dll) Test and tool directory contains debug and release subdirectories with the corresponding tests and tools. STEP 2: testing hdf5 libraries and non-hdf4 related tools In a command prompt window run the test batch file which resides in the hdf5\test directory(for example: C:\MyHDFstuff\hdf5\test)to make sure that the library was built correctly. You can possibily test four versions of hdf5 library and tools. They are: release version release dll version debug version debug dll version NOTE: 1) hdf5ddll.dll and hdf5dll.dll should be placed into some place that the application can find, one suggestion is to use the C:\WINNT\system or C:\WINDOWS\system directory before using the dlls. 2) If you want to test HDF5 DLL using HDF5 test projects inside HDF5 workspace, libtestD.dll should also be placed into some place that the application can find, one suggestion is to use the C:\WINNT\system or C:\WINDOWS\system directory before testing HDF5 DLL using HDF5 test projects inside HDF5 workspace. We strongly suggest you to redirect your testing results into an output file and you can easily check the testing results. You may use either NotePad or WordPad or whatever other windows tools to check the results. For the purpose of printing, please choose font less than 14 for better alignment of the text. 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. Note: big test is currently not working for windows because it needs to allocate more space, however, HDF5 can support more than 4GB file if you are using NTFS. We still investigate the possibility to support this test. 2. hdf5 tools testing Currently we are only supporting h5dump test. We are investigating h5ls test now. 1) h5dump test cd back into hdf5 directory and then cd into tools directory(...\hdf5\tools) Go to a) b) c) or d) to test your chosen version a) release static version type: dumptest release >"Your output filename" b) release dll version type: dumptest release dll > "Your output filename" c) debug static version type: dumptest debug >"Your output filename" d) debug dll version type: dumptest debug dll >"Your output filename" We are using "fc" command to compare whether dumper generates correct results. Supposedly you should find "FC: no differences encountered" in your output file. However, since we are comparing the actual dumper output with the expected dumper output under different directory, you may see something like: " ***** ..\TESTFILES\tall-1.ddl ############################# Expected output for 'h5dump tall.h5' ############################# HDF5 "tall.h5" { GROUP "/" { ***** TALL-1.RESULTS HDF5 "..\..\testfiles\tall.h5" { GROUP "/" { ***** " The actual dumper output is correct. The difference showing here is the different representations of filename of the same file. STEP 3: BUILDING THE EXAMPLES 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". On Windows platform select as 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. 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 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. The examples should be tested in these 2 new directories due to some dependencies between the examples. Especially writetest.exe and extendwritetest.exe should be executed before chunkread.exe and readtest.exe due to dependencies among these files. Section III: BUILDING AN APPLICATION USING THE HDF5 LIBRARY OR DLL- SOME HELPFUL POINTERS ==================================================================== 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\ 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 specifing 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 th "DLL Hints" at section IV "MORE HELPFUL POINTERS". Section IV: MORE 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: The files in all.zip must end up in the hdf5\ directory installed by hdf5-1_6_0.zip If you must install all.dsw and all.dsp in another directory, relative to hdf5\ , 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 PreProcessor 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 definations Section V: Disable gzip compression ============================================ If you would like to remove gzip compression from the hdf5 library follow the steps below. 1) Open the H5pubconf.h file from the src directory and remove the following four lines: #define H5_HAVE_ZLIB_H 1 #define H5_HAVE_LIBZ 1 #define H5_HAVE_COMPRESS2 1 #define H5_HAVE_COMPRESSION 1 then save the file. 2) run-compile HDF5 library according to the previous steps. 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 dataspace 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 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. Note: Currently we only build and test .NET on windows XP. Section VII: Build and test 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, the following steps should be followed to set 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.