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The Embarcadero software is not supported with HDF5. However, the steps below may help enable you to build the HDF5 library with Embarcadero's C++ Builder.
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Get the inttypes.h and stdint.h files from here:
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Remove the "only use with Visual Studio" #defines at the top of both files.
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Remove the imaxdiv function from inttypes.h to resolve issues with the compiler. (There may be a better way to implement this but this should work.)
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Include these files in your own code (with #include) probably before the #include hdf5.h.
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Use coff2omf to convert the HDF5 import libs to OMF format (located in the C++ Builder bin directory).
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Now you should be able to include the HDF5 header files (#include hdf5.h) in your code and use the library.
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Note that C++ Builder does NOT use the Microsoft C run-time, so you will have to be very careful to use H5free_memory() when an HDF5 API call returns memory. This is very rare, and the HDF5 Reference Manual will tell you that you are responsible for freeing memory (see H5Tget_member_name() as an example). If you do not do this, the CRT heap will eventually have problems.
- - Last modified: 07 September 2016