[Nexus] hdf4 and cygwin

[Peterson, Peter F.]

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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