OpenDap and NetCDF For Win32

[Matthew Hanna]

Thanks for your quick response.  I will try to get the sources again.  Mayb
e
I grabbed the wrong download.  :-)

Any tips from the win32 build guruMr. Morris, for pulling off this compile?

Thanks again!


On 3/14/06, James Gallagher <jhrg at mac.com> wrote:
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> On Mar 14, 2006, at 6:46 AM, Matthew Hanna wrote:
>
> Hi!
> I am trying to build LibDap for Windows using VC7 and I hope to build the
> NetCDF library after that.  I have somehow got a copy of the source code
for
> LibDap-3.6.0 and LibNC-Dap-3.6.0.  I have also compiled the latest
> versions of libCurl-7.15.2, iconv--1.9.2, libXML2-2.6.23, zLib--1.2.3, an
d
> OpenSSL-0.9.8a.  I have also got cppunit-1.10.2.tar.gz and
> pthreads-w32-2-7-0-release.tar.gz that I plan to add to the mix once I am
> sure about how to get LibDap working.  What suggestions can you offer?
>
>
> CppUnit is used for the unit tests and is not needed for a build. However
,
> pthreads is used for the build. I forget if it's required or used if
> available; check the README and INSTALL that came with libdap.
>
>   My LibDap code doesn't appear to be complete so where should I get the
> code from?
>
>
> You can get a source tar.gz file from opendap.org.
>
> How about the LibNC-Dap?
>
>
> Same.
>
> Also, where do I find the code for the xdr library?
>
>
> There is a copy in libdap/win32.
>
>   I was wondering if ithere is a way to use the latest NetCDF libraries
> from UniData as well.  Would all this work better with a different compil
er?
>
>
> I'm CC Rob Morris on this since he's our win32 build expert. I think VC++
> is probably the best best on win32. We tried using the mingW system (whic
h
> uses gcc) but it was more work than VC++ in the end and less useful give
the
> C++ DLL compatibility issues.
>
> Hope this helps
>
> James
>
>
> Thanks!
> Matthew Hanna
> irtheman at gmail.com
>
>
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> James Gallagher                jgallagher at opendap.org
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