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


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