HL-HDF has been built on a number of systems, most of which are different flavours of UNIX. Unfortunately HDF5 is not available for any form of VMS or other arcane operating system such as DOS. What follows is a collection of platform-specific notes.
If the pre-compiled binaries are installed, the file `mkf/hldef.mk' has to be modified manually to point to the locations of the HDF5 installation, the ZLIB installation, the compiler, etc.