H5utils

Download Source:	http://cross-lfs.org/~arowland/tarballs/h/h5utils-1.10.tar.gz

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Introduction to H5utils

h5utils is a set of utilities for visualization and conversion of scientific data in the HDF5 format. Included are programs to convert HDF5 datasets into the formats required by other free visualization software (e.g. plain text, Vis5d, and VTK).

Project Homepage: http://ab-initio.mit.edu/h5utils

Dependencies

Required

• HDF5

Recommended

• libjpeg
• libpng

Optional

• Octave
• libmatheval
• HDF4
• VTK
• Vis5d

Configuration Information

--with-hdf4: build hdf4 utils even if h4toh5 and h5toh4 are present.

--without-octave: don't compile h5read Octave plugin.

--with-v5d=<dir> use Vis5d in <dir> for h5tov5d.

Non-Multilib

Compile the package:

sed -i 's@hdf.h@hdf5.h@g' configure &&
./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

Install the package:

make install

Multilib

32Bit

Compile the package:

sed -i 's@hdf.h@hdf5.h@g' configure &&
CC="gcc ${BUILD32}" CXX="g++ ${BUILD32}" ./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

Install the package:

make install

N32

Compile the package:

sed -i 's@hdf.h@hdf5.h@g' configure &&
CC="gcc ${BUILDN32}" CXX="g++ ${BUILDN32}" ./configure \
--prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib32 &&
make

Install the package:

make install

64Bit

Compile the package:

sed -i 's@hdf.h@hdf5.h@g' configure &&
CC="gcc ${BUILD64} -fPIC" CXX="g++ ${BUILD64} -fPIC" ./configure \
--prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib64 &&
make

Install the package:

make install

Contents

Installed Directories:	None
Installed Programs:	h5fromtext, h5math, h5topng, h5totext, h5tovtk
Installed Libraries:	None

Short Descriptions

h5fromtext	is a utility to create an HDF5 file from a text file..
h5math	is a utility to create and combine HDF5 datasets with simple mathematical expressions.
h5topng	is a utility to create a PNG file from an HDF5 file.
h5totext	is a utility to create a text file from an HDF5 file.
h5tovtk	is a utility to create a VTK file from an HDF5 file.