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<font face="arial,helvetica" size="+2" color="#555588"><h2>Building H5Part</h2></font>
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<LI><a href="#ConfigOptions">Configure Options</a>
<LI><a href="#EnvVariables">Important Environment Variables</a>
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<h2>Configure options</h2></a>
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To set the installation path configure with
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./configure --prefix=your hdf5 installation full path, e.g.--prefix=/usr/local/hdf5
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For the serial implementation configure with
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./configure
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For the parallel implementation configure with
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./configure --enable-parallel
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To enable shared objects configure with
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./configure --enable-shared
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<h2>Environment Variables</h2></a>
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To add HDF5 to your PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH edit your
.tcshr, or .cshrc depending on the shell you are using and add
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setenv HDF5 "your hdf5 installation full path"
setenv PATH ${PATH}:${HDF5}/bin
setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH ${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}:${HDF5}/lib
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if you are using bash, add to your .bashrc
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export HDF5="your hdf5 installation full path"
export PATH=$PATH:${HDF5}/bin
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:${HDF5}/lib
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Open a new terminal or do a
source .tcshr (.cshrc, .bashrc) in the one that you are using.
You can <a href="http://vis.lbl.gov/Research/AcceleratorSAPP/Downloading.html">continue <a/>downloading and installing H5Part.
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