MFhilo Installation in PCGRADS 1.9 rc1

[Mark Sponsler]

Thanks Arlindo, 

Yes - I'm migrating towards V2.0.  The only difference I see is that where one should  explicitly call gradsdods in v 1.9, that call would result in an error in 2.0.  B ut in it's place on can just call grads directly and it has smarts to branch to the DAP enabled .dll , resulting in one call for either (like 1.8 used to be - if I remember corr etly ). 

Thanks again, 
Mark 

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Arlindo da Silva" <arlindo.dasilva at GMAIL.COM> 
To: GRADSUSR at LIST.CINECA.IT 
Sent: Friday, April 17, 2009 2:17:33 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific 
Subject: Re: MFhilo Installation in PCGRADS 1.9 rc1 

Mark, 

   The Win32 superpack include the extensions, no need for a separate download. However, the mfhilo extension is new (too new you may say)  and has only been released with the opengrads v2.0.a5.oga.x bundles. Unfortunately, an extension written for v2.0 cannot be used with v1.9 without rebuilding and some adjustments in the source code. 

   We are contemplating another (opengrads) v1.x release which has several bug fixes we collected in the last year or so. At that time we might refresh the extensions as well.  However, if you can, migrate to v2.0. 

    Arlindo 

  


On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 5:55 PM, Mark Sponsler < msponsler at comcast.net > wrote: 


Hello - 

I need some help installing libmf.gex (Mike Fiorino`s Collection of GrADS 
Extensions). 

I'm using grads-1.9.0-rc1 for Win (the zip version not the super pac) 

I go to the Wiki page:   http://opengrads.org/doc/udxt/libmf/ 

Which directs me to the download page: 
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php? 
group_id=161773&package_id=256757&release_id=589460 

There are a variety of 6 OS's to choose from - none of which is Windows 
based.  So I select the 'Platform Independent' option and download the 
gzip tar file. 

Upon inspecting it's contents there doesn't appear to be any .dll names 
like 'libmf.gex' or  mfhilo....   making me wonder whether I'm in the 
right place. 

So I inspected my existing GrADS installation: 
C:\Program Files\PCGrADS19\win32\gex 

I notice the 'gex' directory which has 4 subdirs (c, dods, hdf, nc, nc4) 
under it all of which appear to have some user defined functions already 
in them (like fish, gxyat, libbjt, re, shape, etc....). 

The installation instructions don't seem to jive with my installation (it 
appears to target only unix users). Any help would be greatly apreciated. 

I know, I could just download Grads version 2.0 and be done with it, but 
that would rob me of the experience of actually installing the extension. 
I like to learn. 

Thanks, 
Mark 



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Arlindo da Silva 
dasilva at alum.mit.edu 
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