Hi,
The netcdf library used to build fairly trivially on MS Windows, using the
mingw port of gcc in the msys shell.
I can build 4.0.1 ok (with some minor hacking of the source), but 4.1.1
fails during the 'make' step because of some problem with my (non-existent
?)TeX utility. Not sure what to do about that, though the mingw mailing list
could probably help out - the actual error varies depending upon whether I'm
building a 32-bit or 64-bit library.
But attempting to build 4.1.2 doesn't even get past the './configure' step.
First up it croaked because there was no curl library ... so I built and
installed curl-7.21.6.
After that, I still can't get configure to succeed:
checking for library containing xdr_void... no
configure: error: Cannot locate library containing xdr functions.
What are these "xdr functions", and how does one make them available on MS
Windows ?
I tried googling for "xdr" and "xdr_void" but didn't come up with anything
particularly illuminating.
(Note: I don't have any personal need to use the netcdf library .... this
post is as much an "fyi" as anything else.)
Cheers,
Rob
