[Met_help] RE: Cygwin build of melBUFR

[John Halley Gotway]

John,

I'm doubtful that I'd be able to secure an external login to NCAR machines
for you, but I'll at least ask about it.

Regarding an FTP site, please use RAL's anonymous ftp site:
ftp ftp.rap.ucar.edu
username = anonymous
password = your email address
cd incoming/irap/johnhg

The ftp site is wipe clean every couple of weeks.  But if you're able to
post it there sometime tomorrow (Friday), I'd be able to grab it before I
leave for vacation.

Thanks for your help,
John

> John
>
> I would be more than happy to give you the source and binaries.
>
> It is 33MB in a tar.gz format.
>
> I can cut a CD and mail it or better yet, give me an id/passwd to ftp
> upload
> to a server.
>
> If you give me an id to a 64 bit linux server, I can debug the differences
> in the pb2nc operation. But, that's not necessary if you have security
> issues.
>
> John Huddleston, PhD, PE
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Halley Gotway [mailto:johnhg at rap.ucar.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 10:58 AM
> To: jhuddleston at hughes.net; met_help
> Subject: Re: Cygwin build of melBUFR
>
> John,
>
> My personal machine at home is windows running cygwin.  However, I've only
> really used it as a gateway to my Linux box at NCAR.  Please do send me
> the
> info on melBUFR though.  It really would be nice
> to make MET more consistent and remove issue of getting the C and Fortran
> code to work together.  We could at least explore using melBUFR as an
> alternative.
>
> I did just receive a support question this morning from another user about
> getting MET up and running on cygwin.  He's finding that he'll need to
> modify some of the include files to get it to build.
> I'm wondering, would you be willing to tar your version of MET (v1.1
> hopefully) that's running under cygwin and send it to me?  I'd like to do
> diffs for all of the source files to see the changes you
> had to make to get it running under cygwin.  Then it'd be easier for this
> other user to get up and running.
>
> And we include your changes for cygwin in future releases of MET.
>
> FYI - I'll be out of the office on vacation from Monday, August 4 through
> Wednesday, August 13.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> John
>
> John Huddleston wrote:
>> John
>>
>>
>>
>> I have compiled the melBUFR C library under Cygwin and created the
>> dump_bufr.exe executable.  It works very well against the unblocked
> prepbufr
>> files under Cygwin.
>>
>>
>>
>> If we replace the FORTRAN libbufr with the C melBUFR calls in the pb2nc
>> area, it would make a more consistent MET package.
>>
>>
>>
>> I'll look into it.  If you have a Windows system with Cygwin and want
>> the
>> library and bufr_dump executable, let me know.
>>
>>
>>
>> John Huddleston
>>
>>
>
>