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Installing HDF5

Procedure

  1. Use PuTTY to log in to the server as the root user.
  2. Download the HDF5 installation package and decompress it.
    cd /path/to
wget https://support.hdfgroup.org/ftp/HDF5/releases/hdf5-1.10/hdf5-1.10.1/src/hdf5-1.10.1.tar.gz
tar xf hdf5-1.10.1.tar.gz
  3. Go to the source package directory and perform the installation.
    cd hdf5-1.10.1
CC=mpicc CXX=mpicxx FC=mpif90 F77=mpif90  ./configure --prefix=/path/to/hdf5 --enable-fortran --enable-static=yes --enable-parallel --enable-shared CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC -Wno-incompatible-pointer-types-discards-qualifiers -Wno-non-literal-null-conversion" FCFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC" LDFLAGS="-Wl,--build-id"
sed -i '11835c wl="-Wl,"' libtool
make -j 64
make install
  4. Set the environment variables.
    export PATH=/path/to/hdf5/bin:$PATH
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/path/to/hdf5/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
export INCLUDE=/path/to/hdf5/include:$INCLUDE