Good afternoon all,
I'm writing this message to announce/discuss the work being done towards
official Windows support for NetCDF 4.2. The goal is not to have a
Windows NetCDF branch, but rather to have Windows support integrated
into the main codebase. Currently, my priorities are as follows:
o Short-term goal: Provide a set of .dll's (32/64-bit) to coincide with
the upcoming NetCDF 4.2.1 release (date TBD), as well as a documented
build process for NetCDF and any dependencies. The environment for this
build process is MSYS/MinGW/MinGW64.
o Medium-term goal: Integrate CMake into NetCDF to provide a Visual
Studio build chain. The recent post by J. Luis provided a link to a
build for NetCDF 4.1.3, using
CMake(http://gmtrac.soest.hawaii.edu/projects/gmt/wiki/BuildingNetCDF
). This will be a great help for official CMake support.
The status of the short-term goal is officially 'good, but no promises
until the 4.2.1 release'. I have static and shared libraries (dll's)
building for both 32 & 64 bit Windows; these libraries lack dap support
(currently), but netcdf-4/hdf5 tests are all successful. I will start on
official CMake support following the 4.2.1 release. I intend to have
dap support working for this release.
I hope to have the official website for the Windows NetCDF project
online by the end of next week. I'll post status updates, compilation
instructions and possibly beta library downloads there, until Windows
support is officially part of the NetCDF code. I'm sure there will be a
FAQ as well, once questions start coming in.
Have a great afternoon, I look forward to deploying NetCDF with Windows
support.
--Ward
Ward Fisher
wfisher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
