===== Netcdf under cygwin =====

A common problem for me and others (telling from discussions on the web) is the installation of a current netcdf under cygwin. Download from [[http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/|UNIDATA]] and installation following the INSTALL guide seem to work fine (make check is happy), but neither binaries nor library files are written to the "///usr/local//" directory nor any other usual path as far as I could see. 

The binaries from UNIDATA didn't do the job neither (most likely due to compiler issues).

Meanwhile you can get a netcdf package for cygwin via the "setup.exe" tool, e.g. at the cygwin-server
ftp.univie.ac.at

The netcdf libraries are automatically installed in the "/bin" directory in cygwin and are called "cygnetcdf*". This means you have to introduce symbolic links to help libRadtran configure to find them.

Create them in the "/lib" directory where configure looks for them (otherwise use "./configure -with-libnetcdf=") :

ln -s /bin/cygnetcdf-6.dll libnetcdf.a\\
ln -s /bin/cygnetcdf-c++4-1.dll libnetcdf.a

(Infos from http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/mailing_lists/archives/netcdfgroup/2011/msg00065.html)

Then configure works fine and netcdf is found. 

 --- //[[tobias.zinner@lmu.de|Tobias Zinner]] 2011/02/03//