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Building HDF5

## Building H5Part

- Configure Options
- Important Environment Variables

## Configure options

To set the installation path configure with

    	./configure --prefix=your hdf5 installation full path, e.g.--prefix=/usr/local/hdf5

For the serial implementation configure with

    	./configure

For the parallel implementation configure with

    	./configure --enable-parallel

To enable shared objects configure with

    	./configure --enable-shared

## Environment Variables

To add HDF5 to your PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH edit your .tcshr, or .cshrc depending on the shell you are using and add

    setenv HDF5 "your hdf5 installation full path"
    setenv PATH ${PATH}:${HDF5}/bin
    setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH ${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}:${HDF5}/lib

if you are using bash, add to your .bashrc

    export HDF5="your hdf5 installation full path"
    export  PATH=$PATH:${HDF5}/bin
    export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:${HDF5}/lib

Open a new terminal or do a source .tcshr (.cshrc, .bashrc) in the one that you are using. You can continue downloading and installing H5Part.