HDF5 Installation

[Kyle Shores]

Any chance you could use cmake for the next installation? That way more
packages would be able to include HDF5 with cmake and pkg-config.

Best,
Kyle

On Mon, Mar 18, 2024 at 3:23 PM marco atzeri <marco.atzeri@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>