build netcdf with CMAKE under MSVC 2022

[jbensabat]

Hello
I am trying to build netcdf with cmake under MSVC 2022
first I built hdf5 with zlib

then in CMAKE i get the following error

Selecting Windows SDK version 10.0.22000.0 to target Windows 10.0.22621.
CMake Error at C:/software/hdf5/bin/hdf5-config.cmake:145 (include):
include could not find requested file:

C:/software/hdf5/cmake/hdf5-targets.cmake

Call Stack (most recent call first):
CMakeLists.txt:743 (FIND_PACKAGE)

Using HDF5 include dir: C:/software/hdf5/include;
CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:887 (MESSAGE):
HDF5 was built without zlib. Rebuild HDF5 with zlib.

Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
See also "C:/software/netcdf/bin/CMakeFiles/CMakeOutput.log".
See also "C:/software/netcdf/bin/CMakeFiles/CMakeError.log".

It seems that the cmake script is not aware of the fact hdf5 was built with zlib

any help would really be appreciated
best
jac

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[jbensabat]

Hi
I do not know is this is of interest but I will share it anyway
I tried to build netcdf-4.9.2 with hdf-1.12, as the 1.14 version does not seem to create the same directory structure so netcdf cmake can find what it looks for
I can then configure the workspace but when I try to build the lib I get numerous errors
one of them is that HDF5_OBJID_T is not defined anywhere not in the hdf5 directory neither in the netcdf one.
any help would really be appreciated
best
jac

[WardF]

Thank you; I'll take a look at this, sorry for the delay in getting back to you! I'm able to build with hdf5-1.10 under Windows, but have not yet tried with newer HDF5 versions.

[jbensabat]

hi
thanks for your reply.
I made some progress in the meantime.
I was able to compile netcdf-c (downloaded from the github repository) together with hdf-1.12
the netcdf archive that can be downloaded is apparently incomplete
hdf-1.12 creates configurration files (hdf-targets,cmake etc) in directories that change from version to version
in version 1.12 these were placed
in ..\build_CPack_Packages\win64\ZIP\HDF5-1.12.1-win64\share\cmake\hdf5
in version 1.14 this structure has changed and I cold not figure out where the correct files could be placed.
I then rolled back to version 1.12
best
jac

[WardF]

I am working to stand up a Windows/Visual Studio dev environment to test on.

[zklaus]

@jbensabat, not sure if this is helpful for you, but I thought I'd point out that libnetcdf is available for Windows on Conda-forge, so you can install it with conda/mamba and/or have a look at the Windows build script to see how the Windows build is accomplished there.