In some sense, yes. I mean, I know that Exodus II has Fortran bindings and that it _should be_ easily compiled using CMake, even in Windows machines. The problem is that I've never got success in compiling Exodus II in Windows. Ok, it must be a problem with me... but it's not as easy as compile VTK or ParaView and there's much more improvements to be done (my opinion).
Exodus II depends on Netcdf library. Netcdf, in my opinion, has a poor support for Windows. Compile Netcdf using the source code, in Windows, seems to be almost impossible... The library itself can be wonderful, but, with poor portability it looses all of its power (my opinion again). Well, at least there's something in the link http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/docs/netcdf-install/Building-and-Installing-NetCDF-on-Windows.html... Ok, I downloaded this Netcdf precompiled library and tried to compile Exodus II using CMake and got a bunch of error messages. It's frustrating... (not to mention that weird requirement of C header adjustment to manage large files... but it's another history...) HDF5 is so much easier to use that I just decided to stick with Xdmf format. The problem is that ParaView seems to be Exodus II driven for much of its parallel resources. Every time I try to do something more complicated in ParaView, I'm adviced that the resource is not available for the file format I'm using. Anyway, I'm sure there's people out there using Exodus II in Windows machines (at least in Sandia labs). Including Fortran users. I was just curious to know how these people managed to do that... Renato. On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Moreland, Kenneth <kmo...@sandia.gov>wrote: > I don't understand what exactly you are asking. Are you trying to compile > a Fortran program that uses the Exodus II library? And are you asking if > anyone has done that before? > > -Ken > ________________________________________ > From: paraview-boun...@paraview.org [paraview-boun...@paraview.org] On > Behalf Of Renato Elias [rnel...@nacad.ufrj.br] > Sent: Wednesday, April 08, 2009 7:49 AM > To: paraview@paraview.org > Cc: vtkus...@vtk.org > Subject: [Paraview] Exodus II in Windows machines > > Is there any brave guy (maybe a Sandia's folk) successfully working with > the following exotic combination? > > Exodus II, Windows and Fortran > > (well, it _should not_ be exotic) > > If so, how could you manage such "miracle" (without using Cygwin or a bunch > of huge third party libraries/shells/compilers would be the desirable > answer...)? > > I've never used Exodus II format since it's quite hard to use in Windows > machines... > > Thanks for any discussion > > Renato. > > p.s. (1): I'm not a Windows defensor, but, portability, for me, is a key > issue. > > p.s. (2): I'm posting such question in the ParaView/VTK lists because I'm > pretty sure there are ExodusII users here. > >
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