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HDF5 Build and Install Instructions for Cygwin
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This document is a instruction on how to build, test and install HDF5 libary on
Cygwin. See detailed information in hdf5/INSTALL.
NOTE: hdf5 can be built with CMake, see the INSTALL_CMake.txt file for more guidance.
1. Installed Cygwin 1.7.25 or higher
To install the Cygwin net release, go to http://www.cygwin.com and
click on "setup-x86.exe" (32-bit installation) under the heading
"Current Cygwin DLL version". This will download a GUI
installer called setup-x86.exe which can be run to download a complete
Cygwin installation via the internet. Then follow the instructions
on each screen to install Cygwin.
Cygwin uses packages to manage installing various software. Users can
choose to install or uninstall certain packages by running setup.exe.
http://www.cygwin.com/packages/ provides detailed information about
Most required dependencies can be satisfied by installing all packages in
the "Devel" category. However, please verify that you have installed all
2. Compilers, Libraries and Utilities Installed
The following compilers are supported by HDF5 and included in the Cygwin
gcc (4.7.3 and 4.9.2), which includes:
gcc4-fortran : fortran compiler
2.1.1 Using Compilers Not Supported
By default the current configuration uses vendor compilers; to use
another compiler run the following commands before running
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