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HDF Windows Support. MuQun Yang, Xuan Bai, Elena Pourmal, Barbara Jones, Pedro Vincent, Robert E. McGrath National Center for Supercomputing Applications University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Goals. Support HDF software for Windows platforms Easy to install Build from source.
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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
Goals • Support HDF software for Windows platforms • Easy to install • Build from source
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
Important Efforts • Easy to build, test and install • Automatic tool testing • Comprehensive documentation • Windows support website • CYGWIN investigation • Quick feedback from Help Desk
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
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
Extensive Documentation • FAQ’s and Tips • Please see: http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/windows • release_docs – detailed installation and build instructions
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.