[ncl-install] Obtaining libngmath.lib instead of libngmath.a for Visual Studio

[David Brown]

Hi Romain,
Unfortunately we do not support native Windows installations at all. We do have support for through Cygwin, but I am guessing that does not work for you. 
Possibly we could offer some basic assistance on building from source, but only if your problems are not platform-specific. What sort of error messages are you getting when you attempt to build from source? If you are getting undefined references during the link stage, I can tell you that, although our documentation at http://www.ncarg.ucar.edu/ngmath/ claims that the ngmath library "is a stand-alone" library, I have noticed that there are a few dependencies on the NCARG library. Specifically I noticed references to 'seter' and 'icfell' in the shgrid code. These are some error handling routines that are located in the ncarg2d/src/libncarg/support directory of the NCL distribution (assuming you downloaded the NCL source).
 -dave



On Jan 16, 2013, at 3:51 PM, Romain Fiévet wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I am looking for a 3d interpolation routine in fortran for my research in fluid mechanic. Apparently the ngmath library possesses some functions that could help me (particularly the Shgrid function).
> 
> I am working on windows 7 and using Intel Visual Fortran. Therefore the downloadable libngmath.a is a format that cannot be loaded, so I was wondering if I could find somewhere a .lib library file instead ?
> I downloaded the source file and try to compile them in VS a .lib file, I am currently working on it but I wasn't able to build the library so far. I am not even sure if that is easily feasible ?
> 
> Thank you for your help,
> 
> -- 
> Romain Fiévet,
> Graduate Student in Aerospace Engineering at The University at Texas at Austin,
> Elève-ingénieur à l'Ecole Centrale de Lille, France
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