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"Sisyphus" <sisyphus1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > 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 > Try configure with --disable-dap. Ed -- Ed Hartnett -- ed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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