Compiling a Program

General Instructions To Compile A Program:

C:
    cc -o <your program> <your program>.c\ 
       -I<path for hdf include directory>\
       -L<path for hdf libraries> -lmfhdf -ldf -ljpeg -lz
 or
    cc -o <your program> <your program>.c\ 
       -I<path for hdf include directory> \
          <path for libmfhdf.a> <path for libdf.a> \
          <path for libjpeg.a> <path for libz.a>

FORTRAN:
    f77 -o <your program> <your program.f>  \
        -L<path for hdf libraries> -lmfhdf -ldf -ljpeg -lz
 or
    f77 -o <your program> <your program.f>  \
          <path for libmfhdf.a>  <path for libdf.a> \
          <path for libjpeg.a> <path for libz.a>

NOTE: The order of the libraries is important: libmfhdf.a first, followed by libdf.a, then libjpeg.a and libz.a. The libjpeg.a library is optional.

Additional options used to compile a program for a given platform are located in the configuration files (mh-*) in the HDF source code under ./config (for example, ./config/mh-hpux).

The ./release_notes/compile.txt gives information on compiling for each platform. This is based on the information in the configuration files.