Are all of these issues resolved for the next HDF5 release? Our project uses HDF5 and our developers have asked us to support MinGW on Windows. HDF5 building under MinGW was holding us back in the past so I just thought I would check to see if the issues have been solved?
Thanks ___________________________________________________________ Mike Jackson Principal Software Engineer BlueQuartz Software Dayton, Ohio [email protected] www.bluequartz.net On Jul 19, 2012, at 9:28 AM, Allen D Byrne wrote: > I should specify that the problem with generating th e h5pubconf.h file is > with the autotools configure process. CMake works just fine. > > Allen > > On Thursday, July 19, 2012 08:21:07 AM Allen D Byrne wrote: >> The next release of HDF5 is this fall with the code freeze at the end of >> September. >> >> The current code base in svn (including the cmake branch) already works on >> Windows 7 and mingw using cmake, with the exception of fortran. >> I will work with the autotools experts to review these patches with the >> changes I already made (added check for the wsock lib). >> >> My version of mingw on Windows 7 will not generate the h5pubconf.h file >> properly (verbatim copy of the config.in file), >> and that has prevented me from finishing the support for mingw. >> >> Allen >> >> >> On Wednesday, July 18, 2012 10:51:52 PM Michael Jackson wrote: >>> If we added these features to the CMake scripts would that help also? I am >> more of a "CMake Guy" than an autotools guy but I would think adding these >> flags to the CMake files for MinGW would allow one to configure HDF5 with >> CMake >> on MinGW (or MSYS). >>> >>> Thoughts? When is the next release of HDF5 scheduled for? Not sure I am >> going to have time to patch before mid August. >>> ___________________________________________________________ >>> Mike Jackson Principal Software Engineer >>> BlueQuartz Software Dayton, Ohio >>> [email protected] www.bluequartz.net >>> >>> On Jul 18, 2012, at 6:05 PM, edscott wilson garcia wrote: >>> >>>> Hi forum, >>>> >>>> In order to get hdf5 1.8.9 to compile cleanly with no fuzz on mingw, >> just patch two files, configure.in and src/Makefile. Then regenerate scripts >> with >> "aclocal && autoheader && libtoolize && automake && autoconf". >>>> Finally run configure with the option "--with-mingw", compile and enjoy. >>>> >>>> The patches are very simple: >>>> >>>> >>>> **** Patch for configure.in >>>> ******************************************* >>>> --- /tmp/hdf5-1.8.9/configure.in.old 2012-05-09 10:07:27.000000000 -0500 >>>> +++ /tmp/hdf5-1.8.9/configure.in 2012-07-18 16:51:35.000000000 -0500 >>>> @@ -49,6 +49,16 @@ >>>> dnl rebuild rules. >>>> AM_MAINTAINER_MODE >>>> >>>> +AC_ARG_WITH(mingw, [--with-mingw enable compilation with gnu gcc under >> mingw]) >>>> +AM_CONDITIONAL([WITH_MINGW], [test "$with_mingw" = "yes"]) >>>> +if test "$with_mingw" = "yes"; then >>>> + AC_DEFINE([HAVE_WINDOWS],[1],[Define if the Windows virtual file driver >> should be compiled]) >>>> + AC_DEFINE([HAVE_MINGW],[1],[Define if on mingw]) >>>> + AC_DEFINE([HAVE_WIN32_API],[1],[Define if on the Windows platform]) >>>> +dnl We also need to add a -lwsock32 to avert _WSAStartup@8 errors >>>> + LIBS="$LIBS -lwsock32" >>>> +fi >>>> + >>>> dnl Run post processing on files created by configure. >>>> dnl src/H5pubconf.h: >>>> dnl Generate src/H5pubconf.h from src/H5config.h by prepending H5_ to all >>>> >>>> >>>> **** Patch for src/Makefile.am >>>> ******************************************* >>>> --- /tmp/hdf5-1.8.9/src/Makefile.am.old 2012-05-09 10:05:58.000000000 >> -0500 >>>> +++ /tmp/hdf5-1.8.9/src/Makefile.am 2012-07-18 16:54:27.000000000 -0500 >>>> @@ -103,6 +103,9 @@ >>>> H5Zdeflate.c H5Zfletcher32.c H5Znbit.c H5Zshuffle.c H5Zszip.c \ >>>> H5Zscaleoffset.c H5Ztrans.c >>>> >>>> +if WITH_MINGW >>>> + libhdf5_la_SOURCES+=H5FDwindows.c >>>> +endif >>>> >>>> # Public headers >>>> include_HEADERS = hdf5.h H5api_adpt.h H5overflow.h H5pubconf.h H5public.h >> H5version.h \ >>>> @@ -115,6 +118,10 @@ >>>> H5MMpublic.h H5Opublic.h H5Ppublic.h H5Rpublic.h H5Spublic.h \ >>>> H5Tpublic.h H5Zpublic.h >>>> >>>> +if WITH_MINGW >>>> + libhdf5_la_SOURCES+=H5FDwindows.h >>>> +endif >>>> + >>>> # install libhdf5.settings in lib directory >>>> settingsdir=$(libdir) >>>> settings_DATA=libhdf5.settings >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Hdf-forum is for HDF software users discussion. >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://mail.hdfgroup.org/mailman/listinfo/hdf-forum_hdfgroup.org >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Hdf-forum is for HDF software users discussion. >>> [email protected] >>> http://mail.hdfgroup.org/mailman/listinfo/hdf-forum_hdfgroup.org >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Hdf-forum is for HDF software users discussion. >> [email protected] >> http://mail.hdfgroup.org/mailman/listinfo/hdf-forum_hdfgroup.org > > _______________________________________________ > Hdf-forum is for HDF software users discussion. > [email protected] > http://mail.hdfgroup.org/mailman/listinfo/hdf-forum_hdfgroup.org _______________________________________________ Hdf-forum is for HDF software users discussion. 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