[hdf-forum] The use of the precompiled binaries for Windows

[Francesc Alted]

Hi Thomas,

A Tuesday 28 October 2008, Becker, Thomas escrigué:
> Dear all,
>
> I am quite new to HDF files and since my new employer works an
> Windows machines I have a bit of a problem. We are getting every day
> a couple of HDF5 files in and I would like to read and extract some
> informations out of them. I do not really want to program anything
> using the functions of HDF5 1.8.1 but I would like to use e.g.
> PyTables to establish an workflow in Python in combination with
> ArcGIS.
>
> Hence I would like to know what do I have to do to get this to work
> in Windows? I downloaded the binaries already but how to get further?
>
> At home an my Linux machine all the stuff like GDAL or R can read
> HDF5 out of the box but on a Windows machine I am a bit lost.

What do you need to install exactly?  I'm not sure about GDAL or R, but 
normally project mantainers do provide binary installers with most of 
dependencies included (at least this is the case of PyTables).  Just 
google a bit and hopefully you will find what you are looking for.

Cheers,

-- 
Francesc Alted

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