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Installing and Using netCDF-C Libraries in Windows {#winbin}

\brief NetCDF-C Libraries in a Windows Environment may be used under multiple sets of circumstances.

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There are several development environments available for programmers who develop on Windows.

  • Microsoft Visual Studio
  • MSYS/MinGW
  • Cygwin

For developers using Microsoft Visual Studio, you may download using the Windows build instructions, or you may download the pre-built netCDF-C libraries from this page.

For developers using MSYS/MinGW or Cygwin, you may build netCDF-C using the Linux/Unix build instructions.

For complex builds that include netCDF-4 and/or DAP support this may prove tricky, as it is time consuming to collect all of the dependencies. In these cases it may be easier to use the pre-built netcdf packages provided by the MSYS and Cygwin environments.

Users who prefer to build the netCDF-C libraries from source in a Windows environment using Microsoft Visual Studio are referred to \ref netCDF-CMake

Getting pre-built netCDF-C Libraries for Visual Studio {#msvc-prebuilt}

These libraries have been built using Visual Studio 2012. The downloads are installer packages which contain the netCDF-C libraries and utilities (ncgen, ncgen3, ncdump and nccopy), as well as the associated dependencies.

Included Dependencies {#msvc-inc-deps}

The included dependencies and versions are as follows:

  • libhdf5: 1.8.16
  • libcurl: 7.35.0
  • zlib: 1.2.8

Latest Release (netCDF-C 4.4.1-rc3) {#msvc-latest-release}

Configuration 32-bit 64-bit
netCDF 3 netCDF4.4.1-rc3-NC3-32.exe netCDF4.4.1-rc3-NC3-64.exe
netCDF3+DAP netCDF4.4.1-rc3-NC3-DAP-32.exe netCDF4.4.1-rc3-NC3-DAP-64.exe
netCDF4 netCDF4.4.1-rc3-NC4-32.exe netCDF4.4.1-rc3-NC4-64.exe
netCDF4+DAP netCDF4.4.1-rc3-NC4-DAP-32.exe netCDF4.4.1-rc3-NC4-DAP-64.exe

Using the netCDF-C Libraries with Visual Studio {#msvc-using}

In order to use the netcdf libraries, you must ensure that the .dll files (along with any dependencies from deps/shared/bin) are on the system path. In order to compile a program using these libraries, you must first link your program against the appropriate 'import' (.lib) libraries.

Install Hierarchy {#msvc-install-hierarchy}

When installed, the netCDF libraries are placed in the specified locations, along with the netCDF-C utilities and dependencies.

Notes {#msvc-notes}

The following points should be considered when using the netCDF-C libraries on Windows.

  1. When building the netCDF-C libraries with netCDF4 support, using the Debug libraries may cause extraneous warnings. These warnings are related to cross-dll memory management, and appear to be harmless. You can safely ignore them by using the Release libraries. [NCF-220]