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Appendix B HDF Installation Overview

B.1 General HDF Installation Overview

B.1.1 Acquiring the HDF Library Source

 You may obtain HDF source code and/or selected binaries at no charge from NCSA's anonymous FTP server. The Internet address of the server is:

	ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu
Log in by entering anonymous for the name and your full e-mail address (login@host) for the password.

After logging in change directory to HDF/HDF_Current/. If you want packed source code, change directory to tar/, hqx/, or zip/. Files in those directories must be transferred using binary mode.

If you want unpacked source code, change directory to unpacked/ and transfer all the files in unpacked/ and in its subdirectories to your host.

If you have any questions regarding this procedure or whether you are connected to the Internet, consult your local system administration or network expert.

B.1.2 Building the HDF Library Source

For instructions on building HDF from the source code, please refer to the INSTALL file in the top directory of the HDF source tree.

B.2 Instructions for Compiling an HDF Application

Please refer to the file ./release_notes/compile.txt for information on compiling an HDF application. The directory release_notes can be found in the top directory of the HDF source code tree, as well as in the top directory of the pre-compiled binary version on each platform.


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HDF User's Guide - 05/19/99, NCSA HDF Development Group.