[SOLVED] NetCDF

[goalie39]

Hi All:

I'm wondering if anyone has had any success working with NetCDF and the mingw version of Qt. I haven't really found any topics on here related to NetCDF. I know Unidata provides a set of libraries built with the Visual Studio C compiler, however, I don't have a license for that compiler.

This is where my inexperience comes through. Is it possible to:
(1) Use the visual studio built libraries with the mingw Qt, and if so...
(2) Can I call those C routines from Qt?

Thanks!

[SGaist]

Hi,

Did you consider using the Visual Studio Express edition ? It's free to use

[ChrisW67]

If it is a pure C interface then you should be able to use the binary DLLs in your MingW-based project by linking directly against the DLL (rather than the MSVC link library). Failing that you can use the MSVC compilers found in the Windows Sdk 7.1 (not 8+) or the current Visual Studio Express edition.

[goalie39]

Thanks for the help guys. After some digging, I found that the whole reason I couldn't get it to work was that there were further libraries required by the NetCDF library that I wasn't including in my build. The C based libraries do work just fine as ChrisW67 predicted and pull into Qt without any issues thus far.

Adding:

@
LIBS += -LC:/netcdf/bin_qt -lnetcdf -lhdf5 -lz -lcurl
INCLUDEPATH += C:/netcdf/include
@

Corrected the problem where "bin_qt" contains the following dll's:

netcdf.dll

hdf5.dll

hdf5_hl.dll

libcurl.dll

szip.dll

zlib.dll

zlib1.dll

And "include" contains:

netcdf.h

Thanks for helping push me down the right path.