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        Building and installation instructions for Alpha Open VMS

                              HDF5 1.8.6 release

                                  18 February 2011

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        CONTENTS

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        1. Obtaining HDF5

        2. Building and testing HDF5 C, Fortran and C++ libraries,

                   and utilities

        3. Installing HDF5 libraries

        4. Known problems

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    1.Obtaining HDF5

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      Please see INSTALL file in this directory for downloading instructions.

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    2. Building and testing HDF5 C, Fortran and C++ libraries and utilities.

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           IMPORTANT: This version REQUIRES GNU ZLIB library to be installed

                      on a system. You may download the source code from

                      http://www.zlib.net/

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     -  Use tar command to untar HDF5 source ball

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        tar -xvf <source>.tar

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     -  Change default directory to [.<source>.vms]

         -  Specify top HDF5 source directory in the build.com file

         -  Edit make.com:

            specify path to ZLIB library

            if necessary, modify compilation flags 

        Do NOT REMOVE /define=H5_VMS and /standard=strict_ansi qualifiers.

         -  Run build.com command file 

        @build

            We recommend using batch queue to build and test this distribution. 

            The command file runs make.com and builds 

            C library, tests, and utilities 

            Fortran library and tests

            C++ library and tests

            It also runs test scripts to test C, Fortran and C++ libraries, and

        h5dump, h5diff, h5ls, h5repack and h5import utilities.

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    3. Installing HDF5 libraries

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       Modify install.com file to specify installation directory and run

           @install

           to install HDF5 C, Fortran, and C++ libraries, and utilities.