Building netcdf for NCAR LROSE development

NOTE:

Generally this is no longer needed, and we use the system-installed Hdf5 and NetCDF libs.

To install NetCDF

Follow these steps to build HDF5 and NetCDF support for the NCAR LROSE development and build environment.

Choose the prefix - i.e. the install directory

The default install location for LROSE is:

    ${HOME}/lrose

You can specify the prefix with the -x command line argument.

Check out, build and install netcdf support

The following is the default:

  mkdir -p ~/git
  cd ~/git
  git clone https://github.com/NCAR/lrose-netcdf
  cd lrose-netcdf
  ./build_and_install_netcdf

and will build and install netcdf in ${HOME}/lrose

For, say, installing in /usr/local/lrose:

  ./build_and_install_netcdf -x /usr/local/lrose

MAC OSX build

For OSX, you will install NetCDF using brew. So the build step is generally not necessary.

brew will install netcdf and hdf5 in /usr/local/opt.

If you do want to build a specific copy of NetCDF, do so in the user’s home directory so it does not conflict with the version installed by homebrew.

  git clone https://github.com/NCAR/lrose-netcdf
  cd lrose-netcdf
  ./build_and_install_netcdf.osx -x ~/lrose

will install NetCDF and HDF5 in:

  ~/lrose