Building from source is not very user-friendly at this time , sorry, I did
not want to add any dependencies to the git repo
Here are some notes, if you or anyone still cannot build after this, send me
a private email
1) To build in Linux / Mac
GNU Autoconf is used
1A) Using Bakefile
You need Bakefile 0.29, install from source
http://bakefile.org/
This file was used to generate the gnu "Makefile.in" from a "bakefile"
https://github.com/pedro-vicente/netcdf-explorer/blob/master/explorer.bkl
NOTE1 :
Bakefile is *ONLY* used to generate "Makefile.in"
If you want to avoid this, just modify the supplied "Makefile.in" regarding
the hardcoded paths to HDF5 and netCDF
NOTE 2:
HDF5 and netCDF dependencies were build from source with GNU autoconf
Using the Linux packages for these will probably work too
I use ubuntu
sudo apt-get install < add here HDF5 , netCDF , curl, and probably other
dependencies that I forgot now; if you get some errors, that will tell you
:-) >
If you want to give a try to Bakefile, I *recommend* it
I found Bakefile to be a very good alternative to CMake , because , unlike
CMake, it has a learning curve of about 10 minutes...
Just by looking at the file explorer.bkl, about 17 lines,
one can guess what it does , just a list of source files, and extra
libraries, that's really all we need... no hard to guess meaning CMake
macros here
usage is
bakefile -v -f autoconf explorer.bkl
1B) Using wxWidgets
You need wxWidgets
https://www.wxwidgets.org/
This is where the GNU Autoconf build is located
The best way is to include the netCDF Explorer code inside the "samples"
folder,
say in a folder called "explorer"
modify "configure.in" to have this extra line
SAMPLES_SUBDIRS="$SAMPLES_SUBDIRS explorer"
where "explorer" is the folder you made
redo the autoconf stuff
./autogen.sh
./configure
make
cd samples
make
this should do it on Linux/Mac
2) To build in Windows
I used Visual Studio 2013
2A) Modify the wxWidgets Visual Studio solution to have one more "samples"
project, say "explorer" (just copy from the others or make a new one), and
add the sources
2B) You need Windows Visual Studio builds of all the dependencies : HDF5,
netCDF, curl
in the curl site
http://curl.haxx.se/
the latest distro has Visual Studio ready solutions , which is fantastic
Unfortunately the HDF Group and the netCDF folks do not supply a Visual
Studio ready solution
So, you will have to generate the solution using Cmake ...
for example, for HDF5
cd build
cmake -C
../config/cmake/cacheinit.cmake -D"ZLIB_INCLUDE_DIR:PATH=K:\zlib\V1.2.5" -D"ZLIB_LIBRARY:FILEPATH=K:\zlib\V1.2.5\windows\static\zlib125d.lib"
-D"BUILD_SHARED_LIBS:BOOL=OFF" -D"BUILD_STATIC_EXECS=ON" -D"BUILD_STATIC_CRT_LIBS=ON"
-D"TARGET_STATIC_CRT_FLAGS=ON" ..
for netCDF
cd build
cmake -C
../cmake/ConfigUser.cmake -D"NC_USE_STATIC_CRT=ON" -D"BUILD_SHARED_LIBS=OFF"
-D"ENABLE_DLL=OFF" -D"HDF5_INCLUDE_DIR=K:\data\hdf5-1.8.15\src" -D"HDF5_LIB=K:\data\hdf5-1.8.15\build\bin\Debug\libhdf5_D.lib"
-D"HDF5_HL_LIB=K:\data\hdf5-1.8.15\build\bin\Debug\libhdf5_hl_D.lib" -D"ZLIB_INCLUDE_DIR:PATH=K:\zlib\V1.2.5"
-D"ZLIB_LIBRARY:FILEPATH=K:\zlib\V1.2.5\windows\static\zlib125d.lib" -D"ENABLE_DAP=ON"
-D"CURL_LIBRARY=K:\curl-7.45.0\build\Win32\VC12\LIB
Debug\libcurld.lib" -D"CURL_INCLUDE_DIR=K:\curl-7.45.0\include" ..
Hope this helps
One last thing, if you want to avoid future headaches and lost time, use
static build for all the builds .
This is for both Windows *and* Linux ...
ah, that just reminded me that I had to build in Linux with
the C++ standard library as a static build ( -static-libgcc if I recall it's
the option) because when I tried my ubuntu build on other systems it went to
look for a missing dynamic library
Just hack the option into Makefile.in
The supplied Linux binary is X86_64 by the way
There may be something missing , send me a private email if something fails
:-)
----------------------
Pedro Vicente
pedro.vicente at space-research.org
http://www.space-research.org/
----- Original Message -----
From: "Orion Poplawski" <orion at cora.nwra.com>
To: "Pedro Vicente" <pedro.vicente at space-research.org>;
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Sent: Friday, November 06, 2015 4:01 PM
Subject: Re: [netcdfgroup] Introducing netCDF Explorer
> On 11/01/2015 11:37 PM, Pedro Vicente wrote:
>>
>>
>> Today we announce the release of a new product, netCDF Explorer.
>>
>> netCDF Explorer is multi-platform graphical browser for netCDF files.
>> netCDF
>> Explorer can browse files locally or remotely, by means of OPeNDAP
>> <http://www.opendap.org/>.
>>
>> It is available at
>>
>> http://www.space-research.org/
>>
>> Downloads are available for Mac, Windows and Linux. Source code is
>> available
>> at GitHub.
>>
>> https://github.com/pedro-vicente/netcdf-explorer__
>>
>> netCDF Explorer follows the design of our flagship product, HDF Explorer.
>>
>> *HDF Explorer recently reached the mark of 30,000 users. It has become
>> the
>> most widely acclaimed browser for HDF files.*
>>
>> *HDF Explorer was developed only for the Windows platform, and one
>> request we
>> frequently have is the availability for Mac and Linux. When HDF Explorer
>> was
>> written, there was not available a good (or any, for that matter), cross
>> platform GUI framework written in C++.*
>>
>> We recently came across with an excellent GUI framework that is a joy to
>> work
>> with, that allows the deployment to Mac, Linux, and Windows with one
>> source
>> code base. So, a project that was on the back burner for many years,
>> quickly
>> came to light in the short time frame of one month. The first product is
>> netCDF Explorer.
>>
>> Due to the short time of development, netCDF Explorer can be considered
>> as a
>> simple start with a lot of room to grow.
>>
>> Nonetheless we decided to release it at this time to get a feeling of
>> netCDF/HDF/OpenDAP user?s comments, suggestions, or any problems they may
>> encounter examining their own netCDF files.
>>
>> So, please send any comments, suggestions, problems found.
>
> How the heck are you supposed to build this thing from source?
>
>
> $ bakefile -f gnu explorer.bkl
> /export/home/orion/redhat/netcdf-explorer-0.1/netcdf-explorer-6cd807a8db1b02196371115689f248456d322e71/explorer.bkl:4:
> error: can't find file '../../build/bakefiles/common_samples.bkl' in
> /export/home/orion/redhat/netcdf-explorer-0.1/netcdf-explorer-6cd807a8db1b02196371115689f248456d322e71:/usr/share/bakefile/rules:/usr/share/bakefile/rules/modules:/usr/share/bakefile/output:/usr/share/bakefile
> included from
> /export/home/orion/redhat/netcdf-explorer-0.1/netcdf-explorer-6cd807a8db1b02196371115689f248456d322e71/explorer.bkl:4
>
>
> --
> Orion Poplawski
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> NWRA, Boulder/CoRA Office FAX: 303-415-9702
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>
Received on Fri Nov 06 2015 - 17:48:59 GMT
