----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Jackson" <[email protected]>
To: "HDF Users Discussion List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2012 4:57 AM
Subject: Re: [Hdf-forum] HDF5 1.8.9 release candidate is available
fortesting
Those wanting MinGW HDF5 compatibility should really consider using CMake
to configure their build of HDF5. It does work much better than the
./configure script.
Hard to believe that anything could possibly work *worse* ;-)
I do have cmake-2.8.1, but have used it to build plplot only and am not all
that familiar with it.
Are there any step-by-step instructions for building HDF5 with cmake and
mingw ? ... or is it just a matter of following the usual procedure
(whatever that might be).
Do the test scripts pass when using cmake ?
I have now successfully built a 32-bit build and 64-bit build of 1.8.9-pre1
using './configure .....' (by hacking various .c files). By "successfully" I
mean that everything built ok, and the libraries are usable for my
purposes - but I didn't get far with 'make check' as testhdf5.exe crashes.
Perhaps it's just a test that ought to be skipped on Windows ... or perhaps
it's something more sinister than that.
The hacks I've made have been fairly simple, but having to make those small
amendments to the following files is tedious, nonetheless:
hdf5-1.8.9-pre1\perform\sio_engine.c
hdf5-1.8.9-pre1\src\H5FDdirect.c
hdf5-1.8.9-pre1\src\H5FDmpiposix.c
hdf5-1.8.9-pre1\src\H5FDstdio.c
hdf5-1.8.9-pre1\test\h5test.c
hdf5-1.8.9-pre1\test\links.c
hdf5-1.8.9-pre1\test\links_env.c
hdf5-1.8.9-pre1\test\tfile.c
hdf5-1.8.9-pre1\tools\h5ls\h5ls.c
Obviously, the correct way to fix these problems is to fix the configure
process - but, in the meantime, I've no objection to using cmake if the job
can easily be done that way.
I'll see if I can make improvements to 'configure' ... but don't hold your
breath.
Cheers,
Rob
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