Known Problems In The HDF5 1.8.0 Beta Software

Building 1.8.0 Beta 5 on Windows fails to find H5FDstream.c

The H5FDstream.c file was removed from the HDF5 src directory, but was not pulled out of the Windows release. To resolve this problem, remove this source file from the hdf5.dsp or hdf5dll.dsp project file.

Building 1.8.0 Beta 5 on Windows from the command line, get error that typegen.sln cannot be found

The problem is that typegen.sln was removed from misc\typegen, but the command-line batch file was not updated.

You can try to remove the lines in the batch file that access typegen.sln. For example:

----- cut here ----
:: Build H5tinit.exe and generate h4tinit.c
::h5tinit

    echo.   Generating H5tint.c


echo.*****************************************************************************
>>
%build_results%
    echo.                        Build H5Tinit.exe >> %build_results%

echo.*****************************************************************************
>>
%build_results%
    echo. >> %build_results%
    devenv .\windows\misc\typegen\typegen.sln /rebuild Debug >>
%build_results% 2>&1
    if %errorlevel% neq 0 exit /b

    :: Use output to generate h5tinit.c
    .\src\h5tinit.exe > .\src\h5tinit.c

    exit /b


:: Build the HDF5 libraries.  By default, C and C++ libraries are built.
::all
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Last Modified: December 21, 2007