The "dll" part of the name was dropped a few releases ago. hdf5.lib is the import library for hdf5.dll. libhdf5.lib is the static library.
Allen On Wednesday, January 27, 2016 04:44:29 PM Rohit Jamuar wrote: > Hi, > I've been trying to install HDF5-1.8.16 on Win64, and have hit a road-block. > I've tried installing the library with msi, as well as by building from > sources (using cmake). In both attempts, the build process does not create > "hdf5dll.lib". The build process should have created this shared lib, but > with either of these methods, the required lib is not generated. Is there > something that I'm missing? This is the command that I'm using for building > with sources :cmake -G "Visual Studio 12 2013 Win64" > -DBUILD_TESTING:BOOL=OFF -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS:BOOL=ON > -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE="Release" ..\cmake --build . --config "Release" This > shared lib is one of the core dependencies for building a Python module > (Pytables). Please instruct. Thanks,Rohit _______________________________________________ Hdf-forum is for HDF software users discussion. [email protected] http://lists.hdfgroup.org/mailman/listinfo/hdf-forum_lists.hdfgroup.org Twitter: https://twitter.com/hdf5
