Bibudh, you've downloaded the static rather than the dynamic build. You probably want
http://www.hdfgroup.org/ftp/HDF5/releases/hdf5-1.8.7/bin/mac-intel/hdf5-1.8. 7-mac-intel-shared.tar.gz or http://www.hdfgroup.org/ftp/HDF5/releases/hdf5-1.8.7/bin/mac-intel-x86_64/hd f5-1.8.7-mac-intel-x86_64-shared.tar.gz (notice the 'shared' in the name) G. From: Hdf-forum [mailto:hdf-forum-boun...@hdfgroup.org] On Behalf Of Bibudh Lahiri Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2013 7:52 PM To: hdf-forum@hdfgroup.org Subject: [Hdf-forum] PyTables cannot find the HDF5 shared library Hi, I am trying to install PyTables 2.4.0. I have OS X 10.7.5 and Python 2.7. I have installed the following Python libraries: numexpr-1.4.2, Cython-0.18 and numpy 1.5.1. For HDF5, I initially downloaded hdf5-1.8.7 from the following location: http://www.hdfgroup.org/ftp/HDF5/releases/hdf5-1.8.7/obtain5187.html and made HDF5_DIR point to where I downloaded and unzipped hdf5-1.8.7, and added $HDF5_DIR/lib to LD_LIBRARY_PATH. However, when I try to install PyTables by the following command easy_install --prefix=~/local tables-2.4.0 I get the following message: Found HDF5 headers at ``/Users/bibudhlahiri/hdf5/hdf5-1.8.7-mac-intel-static/include``, library at ``/Users/bibudhlahiri/hdf5/hdf5-1.8.7-mac-intel-static/lib``. .. WARNING:: Could not find the HDF5 runtime. The HDF5 shared library was *not* found in the default library paths. In case of runtime problems, please remember to install it. which leads to additional problems when I try to run some Python programs that are supposed to read some HDF5 files. Could you please point out where the error is, and what I can do? Thanks Bibudh -- Bibudh Lahiri Data Scientist, Case Commons LLC 841 Broadway, New York, NY 10003 http://knowthynumbers.blogspot.com/
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