NetCDF

NetCDF (network Common Data Form) is a machine-independent data format and software library for representing scientific data. The netCDF software was developed at the Unidata Program Center in Boulder, Colorado.

This page contains several additions to the official netCDF distribution.

Build netCDF 4.2.0 with Qt

Qt is a cross platform (Linux, Mac OSX or Windows enviroment) build system. NetCDF 4.2.0 can be built either from the Qt IDE, QtCreator, or from the command line. To build NetCDF 4.2.0 with QtCreator, just open the file netcdf.pro.

Build netCDF 4.2.0 with MSVC

To build netCDF 4.2.0 with Visual Studio 2010, open the file netcdf.sln with Visual Studio.

netCDF depends on several pre-installed libraries, namely HDF5 (including HDF5 High-Level), zlib. The netCDF supplied Visual Studio projects assume static builds of these libraries. These are specified by means of the following Windows enviroments variables in the projects:

LIB_HDF5
LIB_HDF5_HL
LIB_ZLIB
LIB_SZIP

Additionnaly, the following environment variables must also be defined for the location of the HDF5 header files:

HEADER_HDF5
HEADER_HDF5_HL

The following files have Qt/MSVC build projects for:

Library	Description	File	Size	Date
`netCDF 4.2.0`	Contains the projects: /libsrc /libdispatch /libsrc4 /ncdump	netcdf-4.2.0.tar.gz	1.8MB	June 24, 2012
`HDF5 1.8.5 patch1`	Contains the projects: /hdf5 /hdf5_hl /h5tinit /h5libsettings	hdf5-1.8.5.patch1.tar.gz	1.8MB	June 24, 2012

netCDF Operators

These builds were done to support the netCDF Operators (NCO) Qt/MSVC build. Please see the NCO Qt/MSVC build page .