[FLASH-USERS] trouble compiling flash with hdf5

[John ZuHone]

Hi Stephen,

A couple of things that may be helpful to us as we try to debug your problem:

1) Can you send us your Makefile.h? It is the Makefile definitions file that is specific to your machine, which you should have probably custom-edited from a similar one in FLASH4/sites. 

2) Could you explain a bit more how you got HDF5? Did you download the source from the website and compile and install it, or did you have some sort of binary package?

Best,

John ZuHone

On Jul 16, 2011, at 8:41 PM, Stephen Brian Amsel wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to install FLASH4 (alpha) on machine with a Red Hat OS and an Intel processor using the Intel compiler. (I could not find the architecture of the Dell Optiplex GX620 if that matters.) A problem arises in io_h5_type.h. The include-command for hdf5.h works, but not the commands which use hid_t, which is used in hdf5.h. I get:
> io_h5_type.h(10): error: identifier "hid_t" is undefined
>  hid_t io_h5_type_hid_primitive(const int flashType);
> 
> and the same for lines 11-13.
> 
> When I got HDF5, I did not get all the headers. I found and downloaded the HDF5 header, but if there are any others specific to HDF5 that I need, I don't have them. I don't know if that is an issue as hid_t is used in HDF5 and that did not produce an error either here or in a test-program which included it. (The test-program compiled when it called nothing but a printf to say it ran successfully, but ran into an error when I tried to use hid_t.)
> 
> -Stephen