HDF5 Installation

[marco atzeri]

On Mon, Mar 18, 2024 at 3:28 PM Kyle Shores via Cygwin  wrote:
>
> Howdy!
>
> Looking at the list of files
> <https://cygwin.com/packages/x86_64/libhdf5-devel/libhdf5-devel-1.12.3-1>
> for the 2024 HDF5 installation 1.12.3
> <https://cygwin.com/packages/summary/libhdf5-devel.html>, I notice that
> neither the pkg-config or cmake files are installed. For reference,
> mingw's installation
> of hdf5 <https://packages.msys2.org/package/mingw-w64-x86_64-hdf5> has them
> here:
>
>
>    - /mingw64/lib/cmake/hdf5-targets.cmake
>    - /mingw64/lib/pkgconfig/hdf5.pc
>
> Are these installed elsewhere? If not, what's preventing them from
> being installed, or what can I do to help them be installed?
>

Hi Kyle

the package is NOT built using cmake but is using autoconf.
There are no special change. So upstream have not included those files
in the 1.12.3 autoconf

I have not yet tried to build using cmake nor built the 1.14.x series

Regards
Marco