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Instructions for the Installation of HDF5 Software

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This file provides instructions for installing the HDF5 software.  

If you have any problems with the installation, please see The HDF Group's

support page at the following location:

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    http://www.hdfgroup.org/services/support.html

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CONTENTS

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        1. Obtaining HDF5

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        2. Quick installation

        2.1. Windows

        2.2. RedStorm (Cray XT3)

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        3. HDF5 dependencies

        3.1. Zlib

        3.2  Szip (optional)

        3.3. MPI and MPI-IO

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        4. Full installation instructions for source distributions

        4.1. Unpacking the distribution

        4.1.1. Non-compressed tar archive (*.tar)

        4.1.2. Compressed tar archive (*.tar.Z)

        4.1.3. Gzip'd tar archive (*.tar.gz)

        4.1.4. Bzip'd tar archive (*.tar.bz2)

        4.2. Source versus build directories

        4.3. Configuring

        4.3.1. Specifying the installation directories

        4.3.2. Using an alternate C compiler

        4.3.3. Configuring for 64-bit support

        4.3.4. Additional compilation flags

        4.3.5. Compiling HDF5 wrapper libraries

        4.3.6. Specifying other programs

        4.3.7. Specifying other libraries and headers

        4.3.8. Static versus shared linking

        4.3.9. Optimization versus symbolic debugging

        4.3.10. Parallel versus serial library

        4.3.11. Threadsafe capability

        4.3.12. Backward compatibility

        4.4. Building

        4.5. Testing

        4.6. Installing HDF5

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        5. Using the Library

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        6. Support

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