HDF5 version 1.8.7
Please refer to the release_docs/INSTALL file for installation instructions.
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This release is fully functional for the API described in the documentation.
See the RELEASE.txt file in the release_docs/ directory for information
specific to this release of the library. Several INSTALL* files can also be
found in the release_docs/ directory: INSTALL contains instructions for
compiling and installing the library; INSTALL_parallel contains instructions
for installing the parallel version of the library; similarly-named files
contain instructions for VMS and several environments on MS Windows systems.
This directory contains the binary (release) distribution of
HDF5 1.8 that was compiled on an Intel PC running Windows XP,
using Visual Studio 2008/Intel Fortran 11.1. It was built with
the following options:
-- C/C++/Fortran libraries, both static and shared
-- SZIP (encoder enabled) and ZLIB
-- Static and shared HDF5 tools
The contents of this directory are:
COPYING - Copyright notice
USING_Windows.txt - How to compile an application
README.txt - This file
RELEASE.txt - Detailed information regarding this release
HDF-1.8.7-win32.exe - HDF5 Install Utility
CMake.txt - CMake install instructions from the source code.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS - Thanks for contributions
Documentation for this release can be found at the following URL:
http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/.
The following mailing lists are currently set up for HDF5 Library users:
news - For announcements of HDF5 related developments,
not a discussion list.
hdf-forum - For general discussion of the HDF5 library with
other users.
hdf5dev - For discussion of the HDF5 library development
with developers and other interested parties.
To subscribe to a list, send mail to "<list>-subscribe@hdfgroup.org".
where <list> is the name of the list. For example, send a request
to subscribe to the 'news' mail list to the following address:
news-subscribe@hdfgroup.org
Messages sent to the list should be addressed to "<list>@hdfgroup.org".
Periodic code snapshots are provided at the following URL:
ftp://ftp.hdfgroup.uiuc.edu/pub/outgoing/hdf5/snapshots
Please read the README.txt file in that directory before working with a
library snapshot.
The HDF5 website is located at http://hdfgroup.org/HDF5/
Bugs should be reported to help@hdfgroup.org.