HDF Windows Support

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HDF Windows Support

• MuQun Yang, Xuan Bai, Elena Pourmal, Barbara
  Jones, Pedro Vincent, Robert E. McGrath
• National Center for Supercomputing
  ApplicationsUniversity of Illinois,
  Urbana-Champaign

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Goals

• Support HDF software for Windows platforms
• Easy to install
• Build from source

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What do we support?

• All HDF Software is supported on Windows
  platforms
• HDF5 library and tools,
• HDF4 library and tools,
• HDF4 to HDF5 conversion library and utilities,
• HDF5 Lite library

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Supported Platforms and Compilers
Platforms C/C Compilers Fortran Compilers
Windows2000 XP Microsoft Visual C 6.0 DEC Fortran 6.0
Windows2000 XP .NET N/A
Windows2000 XP Intel 7.1 C/C under Visual Studio 6.0 environment Intel 7.1 Fortran compiler
Windows2000 XP Code Warrior (XP only) N/A
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Important Efforts

• Easy to build, test and install
• Automatic tool testing
• Comprehensive documentation
• Windows support website
• CYGWIN investigation
• Quick feedback from Help Desk

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Easy to build, test and install

• C, C and Fortran in one zip file
• Using environmental variables to add or remove
  external libraries
• Automatic tool tests
• Building HDF5 in command line
• Automatic installation
• See poster and documentation for details

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Cygwin Support

• Cygwin will be officially supported
• HDF5 has been successfully built on Cygwin
• Most of HDF5 C library tests passed
• Some data type conversion tests failed.
• All HDF5 tools tests passed

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Extensive Documentation

• FAQs and Tips
• Please see http//hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/windows
• release_docs detailed installation and build
  instructions

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Acknowledgements

• This report is based upon work supported in part
  by a Cooperative Agreement with NASA under NASA
  grants NAG 5-0240 and NCC5-599. Any opinions,
  findings, and conclusions or recommendations
  expressed in this material are those of the
  author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the
  views of the National Aeronautics and Space
  Administration.
• Other support provided by NCSA and other sponsors
  and agencies.