[Nexus] hdf4 and cygwin

[Campbell, Branton]

Peter and Freddie,

Thank you for responding.  I have already tried the building from the
hdf4 source rpm available at nexus.anl.gov/nexus_api.html#download and
from the tar.gz source available at
http://www.sat.uni-bremen.de/arts/wiki/ArtsCygwin.  I attach my error
logs from each case (same problems on two different machines (latest XP
and cygwin).  Any ideas would be appreciated.

Branton

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peterson, Peter F. [mailto:petersonpf at ornl.gov]
> Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2006 7:39 AM
> To: Akeroyd, FA (Freddie); Campbell, Branton; nexus at anl.gov
> Subject: RE: [Nexus] hdf4 and cygwin
> 
> Branton,
> 
> There is a known (undocumented and not really characterized) problem
> with building NeXus when hdf4 is not present. The basic message is
that
> you shouldn't try to build without it.
> 
> P^2
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nexus-bounces at anl.gov [mailto:nexus-bounces at anl.gov] On Behalf
Of
> Akeroyd, FA (Freddie)
> Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2006 3:54 AM
> To: Campbell, Branton; nexus at anl.gov
> Subject: RE: [Nexus] hdf4 and cygwin
> 
> Branton,
> 
> There are some instructions on compiling HDF4 under cygwin at:
> http://www.sat.uni-bremen.de/arts/wiki/ArtsCygwin
> However you should be able to compile NeXus with just mxml and HDF5.
If
> you get a problem with the 3.0 source release, try the CVS development
> source from http://nexus.isis.rl.ac.uk/kits/ as I think there was a
> hidden unnecessary dependency on HDF4 in the original kit that has
since
> been removed.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Freddie
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nexus-bounces at anl.gov [mailto:nexus-bounces at anl.gov] On Behalf
Of
> Campbell, Branton
> Sent: 28 September 2006 04:13
> To: nexus at anl.gov
> Subject: [Nexus] hdf4 and cygwin
> 
> Dear Nexus users,
> 
> Is anyone out there using Nexus under cygwin?  I have no problem
> installing the szip, mxml, and hdf5 libraries.  But I am having no
luck
> with the HDF4 libraries, which according to the official HDF site
aren't
> supported for the cygwin platform.  I am only using the HDF5 function
> calls -- do we really need HDF4 libraries in order to install/use
Nexus?
> 
> Best wishes,
> Branton
> 
> ****************************************
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> Brigham Young University
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