Steve and All,
On Nov 12, 2010, at 4:23 AM, Steve Bissell wrote:

> 
> Hi All.
> My reason for setting H5_BUILT_AS_DYNAMIC_LIB is based on the fact that
> 1)  h5api_adpt.h uses it as a #ifdef switch to define H5_DLLVAR,  
> 2) AND, the #else branch of this (which references the _HDF5USEDLL_ ifdef)
> is very clearly marked thus in the comments:
> 
> /* This is the original HDFGroup defined preprocessor code which should
> still work
> * with the VS projects that are maintained by "The HDF Group"
> * This will be removed after the next release.
> */
> 
The last line is misleading and will be fixed. There are no plans to drop the 
VS projects in the HDF5 1.8.* series.
The switch will happen only in the major release. The next one is 1.10.0, and 
release date was not set up yet. 

Thank you!

Elena

> 
> The statement "this will be removed in the next release" led me to assume
> that this section of the header is deprecated and should not be used in new
> code, and hence that the best define to use would be
> H5_BUILT_AS_DYNAMIC_LIB. 
> 
> Is this interpretation incorrect - will this section of the header continue
> to exist in future?
> 
> I don't use CMake, and I'm not building HDF5, just using it from my client
> code.
> So what, if any, are the functional consequences to VS2005 projects client
> code defining H5_BUILT_AS_DYNAMIC_LIB and building against the h, lib binary
> deliverable - bearing in mind that my application is built, tested, and
> seems to be working fine....?
> Steve
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