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Update Cygwin installation guide #4265

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HDF5 Build and Install Instructions for Cygwin
************************************************************************

This document is an instruction on how to build, test and install HDF5 library on
Cygwin. See detailed information in hdf5/INSTALL.
This document is an instruction on how to build, test and install HDF5 library
on Cygwin. See detailed information in hdf5/INSTALL.

NOTE: hdf5 can be built with CMake, see the INSTALL_CMake.txt file for more guidance.
NOTE: hdf5 can be built with CMake, see the INSTALL_CMake.txt file for more
guidance.

Preconditions:
--------------

1. Installed Cygwin 1.7.25 or higher
1. Cygwin 3.5.1 or higher Installed

To install the Cygwin net release, go to http://www.cygwin.com and
click on "setup-x86.exe" (32-bit installation) under the heading
click on "setup-x86_64.exe" under the heading
"Current Cygwin DLL version". This will download a GUI
installer called setup-x86.exe which can be run to download a complete
installer called setup-x86_64.exe which can be run to download a complete
Cygwin installation via the internet. Then follow the instructions
on each screen to install Cygwin.

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The following compilers are supported by HDF5 and included in the Cygwin
package system:
gcc (4.7.3 and 4.9.2), which includes:
gcc4-core : C compiler
gcc4-g++ : C++ compiler
gcc4-fortran : fortran compiler
gcc, which includes:
gcc-core : C compiler
gcc-g++ : C++ compiler
gcc-fortran : Fortran compiler


2.1.1 Using Compilers Not Supported
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2.2 HDF5 External Library Dependencies

2.2.1 Zlib
2.2.1 zlib

zlib-1.2.5 or later is supported and tested on Cygwin.
zlib-1.2.8 or later is supported and tested.

2.2.2 Szip
The HDF5 library has a predefined compression filter that uses
the extended-Rice lossless compression algorithm for chunked
datasets. For more information on Szip compression, license terms,
and obtaining the Szip source code, see:

https://portal.hdfgroup.org/display/HDF5/Szip+Compression+in+HDF+Products

libaec-1.1.2 or later is supported and tested.

2.3 Additional Utilities

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1. Get HDF5 source code package
Users can download HDF5 source code package from HDF website
(http://hdfgroup.org).
(https://hdfgroup.org).
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2. Unpacking the distribution

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2.1 Non-compressed tar archive (*.tar)

$ tar xf hdf5-1.15.x.tar
$ tar xf hdf5-1.15.x.tar

2.2 Gzip'd tar archive (*.tar.gz)

$ gunzip < hdf5-1.15.x.tar.gz | tar xf -
$ gunzip < hdf5-1.15.x.tar.gz | tar xf -

2.3 Bzip'd tar archive (*.tar.bz2)

$ bunzip2 < hdf5-1.15.x.tar.bz2 | tar xf -
$ bunzip2 < hdf5-1.15.x.tar.bz2 | tar xf -

2. Setup Environment

In Cygwin, most compilers and setting are automatically detected during
the configure script. However, if you are building Fortran we recommend
the configure script. However, if you are building Fortran, we recommend
that you explicitly set the "FC" variable in your environment to use the
gfortran compiler. For example, issue the command:
gfortran compiler. For example, issue the command:

$ export FC=gfortran
$ export FC=gfortran

4. Configuring

Notes: See detailed information in hdf5/release_docs/INSTALL,
part 5. Full installation instructions for source
distributions
Notes: See detailed information in hdf5/release_docs/INSTALL_Auto.txt.

The host configuration file for cygwin i686-pc-cygwin is located
The host configuration file for Cygwin is located
in the `config' directory and are based on architecture name,
vendor name, and operating system which are displayed near the
beginning of the `configure' output. The host config file influences
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To configure HDF5 C Library, using

$ ./configure
$ ./configure

To configure HDF5 C/C++ Library, using

$ ./configure --enable-cxx
$ ./configure --enable-cxx

To configure HDF5 C/Fortran Library, using

$ ./configure --enable-fortran
$ ./configure --enable-fortran

To configure HDF5 C with Szip library, using

$ ./configure --with-szlib="path to szlib"
$ ./configure --with-szlib="path to szlib"

For example, if szip library was installed in the directory
For example, if Szip library was installed in the directory
/cygdrive/c/szip, which is parent directory of "include" and
"lib", then the following command will configure HDF5 C library
with szip enabled:
with Szip enabled:

$ ./configure --with-szlib=/cygdrive/c/szip
$ ./configure --with-szlib=/cygdrive/c/szip

To configure HDF5 C without Zlib,
To configure HDF5 C without zlib,

To disable zlib, using

$ ./configure --without-zlib

Two ways to configure HDF5 C with specified Zlib
Two ways to configure HDF5 C with specified zlib

Using

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/cygdrive/c/usr, which is the parent directory of directories
"include" and "lib",

$ ./configure --with-zlib=/cygdrive/c/usr/include,/cygdrive/c/usr/lib
$ ./configure --with-zlib=/cygdrive/c/usr/include,/cygdrive/c/usr/lib

Through the CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS Variables

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To specify the installation directories, using

$ ./configure --prefix="path for installation"
$ ./configure --prefix="path for installation"

By default, HDF5 library, header files, examples, and
support programs will be installed in /usr/local/lib,
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All of the above switches can be combined together. For
example, if users want to configure HDF5 C/C++/Fortran
library with szip library enabled, with zlib library at
library with Szip library enabled, with zlib library at
/cygdrive/c/usr/, and install HDF5 into directory
/cygdrive/c/hdf5 using gcc/g++ as C/C++ compiler and gfortran
as fortran compiler
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After configuration is done successfully, run the following series of
commands to build, test and install HDF5

$ make > "output file name"
$ make check > "output file name"
$ make > "output file name"
$ make check > "output file name"

Before run "make install", check output file for "make check", there
should be no failures at all.

6. Make Install

$ make install > "output file name"
$ make install > "output file name"


7. Check installed HDF5 library
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8. Known Problems

dt_arith tests may fail due to the use of fork. This is a known issue
with cygwin on Windows.
cache_api tests may fail. This is a known issue with Cygwin.

"make check" fails when building shared lib files is enabled. The default
on Cygwin has been changed to disable shared. It can be enabled with
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