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        Building and installation instructions for Alpha Open VMS

            This file is under construction

                EIP June 1, 2006

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        CONTENTS

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        1. Obtaining HDF5

        2. Building C, Fortran and C++ libraries

        3. Testing HDF5 libraries and tools

        4. Installing HDF5 libraries

        5. Known problems

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    1.Obtaining HDF5

      Please see INSTALL file in this directory for downloading instructions.

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    2. Building C, Fortran and C++ libraries

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           IMPORTANT: This version REQUIRES GNU ZLIB librarary 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 hdf5-1.8.0-<pre>.tar

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     -  Change default directory to [.hdf5-1.8.0-<pre>.vms]

         -  Modify make.com file to point to the installed ZLIB library.

         -  Run 

        @make

           command. This command file will build 

            C library, tests, and utilities 

            Fortran library and tests

            C++ library and tests

            C, Fortran and C++ examples

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       IMPORTANT: Compilations flags are defined in the [.vms]make.com file of the

       source tree. It is set up to use /float=float_ieee qualifier for C, Fortran 

       and C++ compilersi, and debug mode. If desired, those flags can be removed.

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

       If you have to use make.com file in a particular directory, make sure that

       you modify the compilation flags in this file appropriately.

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       If  make.com succeeds, the following libraries and utilties will be built:

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       [.src]hdf5.olb

       [.fortran.src]hdf5_fortran.olb