[Nexus] [netcdfgroup] Introducing netCDF Explorer

[Pedro Vicente]

Orion

I added a GNU autoconf build

Install dependencies:

For Linux Ubuntu

sudo apt-get install libwxgtk3.0-dev
sudo apt-get install libnetcdf-dev netcdf-bin netcdf-doc

Get source:

git clone https://github.com/pedro-vicente/netcdf-explorer.git

Build with:

autoreconf -vfi
./configure
make

For Mac:

Mac does not include GNU Autoconf

So, you need to install it from a package manager. I used HomeBrew

http://brew.sh/

ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL 
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

brew install autoconf
brew install automake

On Mac I installed HDF5, netCDF and wxWidgets from source

The build system uses

nc-config
wx-config

Both are installed from netCDF and wxWidgets

You can use these options for ./configure

--with-wx-config=PATH Use the given PATH to wx-config
--with-nc-config=PATH Use the given PATH to nc-config


For the Mac wxWidgets build I used

../configure --prefix=/Volumes/Home/wx/build-mac --with-macosx-version-min=10.7 
 --disable-webviewwebkit \
CXXFLAGS="-stdlib=libc++ -std=c++11" OBJCXXFLAGS="-stdlib=libc++ -std=c++11" 
CPPFLAGS="-stdlib=libc++" \
LDFLAGS="-stdlib=libc++" CXX=clang++ CXXCPP="clang++ -E" CC=clang 
CPP="clang -E"



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Pedro Vicente
pedro.vicente at space-research.org
http://www.space-research.org/





----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Orion Poplawski" <orion at cora.nwra.com>
To: "Pedro Vicente" <pedro.vicente at space-research.org>; 
<netcdfgroup at unidata.ucar.edu>; <hdf-forum at lists.hdfgroup.org>; 
<openldap-devel at openldap.org>; "openldap" <openldap-technical at openldap.org>; 
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Sent: Friday, November 06, 2015 4:01 PM
Subject: Re: [netcdfgroup] Introducing netCDF Explorer


> On 11/01/2015 11:37 PM, Pedro Vicente wrote:
>>
>>
>> Today we announce the release of a new product, netCDF Explorer.
>>
>> netCDF Explorer is multi-platform graphical browser for netCDF files. 
>> netCDF
>> Explorer can browse files locally or remotely, by means of OPeNDAP
>> <http://www.opendap.org/>.
>>
>> It is available at
>>
>> http://www.space-research.org/
>>
>> Downloads are available for Mac, Windows and Linux. Source code is 
>> available
>> at GitHub.
>>
>> https://github.com/pedro-vicente/netcdf-explorer__
>>
>> netCDF Explorer follows the design of our flagship product, HDF Explorer.
>>
>> *HDF Explorer recently reached the mark of 30,000 users. It has become 
>> the
>> most widely acclaimed browser for HDF files.*
>>
>> *HDF Explorer was developed only for the Windows platform, and one 
>> request we
>> frequently have is the availability for Mac and Linux. When HDF Explorer 
>> was
>> written, there was not available a good (or any, for that matter), cross
>> platform GUI framework written in C++.*
>>
>> We recently came across with an excellent GUI framework that is a joy to 
>> work
>> with, that allows the deployment to Mac, Linux, and Windows with one 
>> source
>> code base. So, a project that was on the back burner for many years, 
>> quickly
>> came to light in the short time frame of one month. The first product is
>> netCDF Explorer.
>>
>> Due to the short time of development, netCDF Explorer can be considered 
>> as a
>> simple start with a lot of room to grow.
>>
>> Nonetheless we decided to release it at this time to get a feeling of
>> netCDF/HDF/OpenDAP user’s comments, suggestions, or any problems they may
>> encounter examining their own netCDF files.
>>
>> So, please send any comments, suggestions, problems found.
>
> How the heck are you supposed to build this thing from source?
>
>
> $ bakefile -f gnu explorer.bkl
> /export/home/orion/redhat/netcdf-explorer-0.1/netcdf-explorer-6cd807a8db1b02196371115689f248456d322e71/explorer.bkl:4:
> error: can't find file '../../build/bakefiles/common_samples.bkl' in
> /export/home/orion/redhat/netcdf-explorer-0.1/netcdf-explorer-6cd807a8db1b02196371115689f248456d322e71:/usr/share/bakefile/rules:/usr/share/bakefile/rules/modules:/usr/share/bakefile/output:/usr/share/bakefile
>    included from
> /export/home/orion/redhat/netcdf-explorer-0.1/netcdf-explorer-6cd807a8db1b02196371115689f248456d322e71/explorer.bkl:4
>
>
> -- 
> Orion Poplawski
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