[gdal-dev] Building HDF5 driver against the binary distribution

[Even Rouault]

Le vendredi 18 octobre 2013 20:59:38, Ivan Lucena a écrit :
> Hi there,
> 
> I built the GDAL HDF plugin against the binary distribution of the
> HDF5-1-8-11 library downloaded from
> http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/release/obtain5.html both on Windows 64 and
> Linux 64 but it doesn't work. It can list the SUBDATASETS but it cannot
> recognize each one individually.
> 
> If I compare the GDAL distribution from Tamas Szekeres
> (gisinternals.com/sdk/) with my built I can see that his works perfectly
> fine for the same file samples and same gdalinfo command. I also noticed
> that his installation  uses  "hdf5dll.dll" not the "hdf5.dll" that comes
> with the binary distribution (HDF5-1.8.11_win64_vs10_shared.zip).
> 
> Again, if I build GDAL HDF plugin (gdal_hdf5.dll) against the binary
> distribution from HDF Group gdalinfo can list the SUBDATASET but it
> *cannot* access each subdataset individually. I am sure that it is not a
> command line mistake because I can run the exact same command with Tamas's
> GDAL environment. Is it just because Tamas used the HDF5 1.8.2 and the
> driver is not compatible with newer versions like this 1.8.11?
> 
> Does anybody know what would be the procedure to build the HDF5 driver
> using the HDF_Group's binary packages? The instructions on
> http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/HDF assumes that you are willing to build
> the HDF(s) library yourself but users should be able download/install and
> use the HDF_Group's binary package and we should be able to make the GDAL
> HDF5 plugin compatible with that.

Hum, this reminds me very much of the very recent thread : 
http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/gdal-dev/2013-October/037257.html . So there 
might indeed be an issue with HDF5 1.8.11, and not specifically related to 
Windows. I didn't try myself.

Did you try with an older Windows build provided by the HDF_Group ? (provided 
that you can download older builds...)

> 
> Thanks in advance for any clue.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Ivan

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