MFhilo Installation in PCGRADS 1.9 rc1

[Arlindo da Silva]

On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 8:57 PM, Mark Sponsler <msponsler at comcast.net>wrote:

> 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.  But 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 corretly).
>

No, there is only one binary in the opengrads builds of v2.0: grads.exe. It
can handle all the formats, thanks to a new NetCDF-4 library. COLA's builds
still have 2 binaries: grads and gradsdap. The gradsdap.exe that you find in
there is just a cover, it is the same code as grads.exe.

    Arlindo



>
> 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<http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?%0Agroup_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
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Arlindo da Silva
> dasilva at alum.mit.edu
>



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Arlindo da Silva
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