[Nexus] NeXus on Vista64

[Brian Tieman]

Freddie,

I'm using Visual Studio 2008.  I'm trying to use HDF5-1.8.5.  I had to 
download the sources for 1.8.5 because I couldn't get the pre-built 
binaries to link.  I was able to get the hdf5dll project to build 
without too much difficulty but some of the hdf5 tools failed to build 
do to linker errors.  The tools that did build work fine.  I've tried 
H5dumpdll, H5debugdll and H5diffdll--all of which use the dll I'm trying 
to link into napi and all of which work as expected.

Since I'm trying to build against 1.8.5 and it looks like napi wants to 
use the 1.6 calls, I had to set H5_USE_16_API_DEFAULT to get napi to 
build.  Could this be the problem?  The NXDir application fails at the line

NXstatus  NX5open(CONSTCHAR *filename, NXaccess am, NXhandle* pHandle)
...
         fapl = H5Pcreate(H5P_FILE_ACCESS);
...

in napi5.c.  HP5create is *not* one of the HDF5 calls whose interface 
changed between 1.6 and 1.8.  I do have working 32 bit code but it's 
built against napi 3.0 and HDF5 1.6.5.

Are you able to build against the HDF5 prebuilt 64 bit binaries?  If so, 
and you're using VS2008, maybe you could send me your project file for 
building napi?

Otherwise, I think I'll try stepping back to HDF5 1.6.5 and see if that 
helps...

Thanks!

Brian



On 7/1/2010 3:19 AM, freddie.akeroyd at stfc.ac.uk wrote:
> Brian,
>
> We run 64 bit NeXus / HDF5 on Vista as part of our instrument control
> system - I have currently only compiled the library and not the
> applications for 64 bit, but the resulting files can be read by 32bit
> NeXus applications. I used Visual Studio to compile for 64 bit - are you
> using that or MinGW? Can you read your HDF5 generated NeXus files with a
> 32bit rather than 64bit NeXus application?
>
> Regards,
>
> Freddie
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: 30 June 2010 23:14
> To: nexus at nexusformat.org
> Subject: [Nexus] NeXus on Vista64
>
> Has anyone built napi for 64 bit windows?  I think I've managed to do it
>
> but I'm getting errors when trying to open HDF5 files from napi.
>
> As a test, I built NXDir for 64 bit.  If I pass it an HDF4 file, it
> works fine.  If I pass it an HDF5 file I get the error "ERROR: cannot
> open file: test.h5"  I'm 90% certain my HDF5 build is OK.  H5dump works
> without error and it's functionally doing the same thing as NXDir.  I've
>
> never used NXDir before so I went on to build my own code which calls
> napi and I get the same results--HDF4 works fine, HDF5 fails in the same
>
> manner.
>
> I've tried both napi 4.2.0 and 4.2.1 and both fail the same way.
>
> Does anyone use napi 4.2.1 with HDF5?  Maybe there's a bug in napi?
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Brian
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