Compiling h5utils

Hello MPB users:

I am interested in using some visualization software to plot the  
dielectric structure of the photonic crystal systems that I set up in  
MPB.  Steven Johnson's wiki points to a handy little utility, h5tov5d  
that converts the standard .h5 output to the .v5d format so that it  
can be viewed with Vis5d.  As I am sure you all know, to install  
h5tov5d I have to compile the h5utils source code after successfully  
installing the HDF5 drivers and a working version of Vis5d.

I had some difficulty in getting the Vis5d+ program to install on our  
system, but in the meantime I was able to compile the h5utils package  
to get most of the other utilities working.  Two days ago I finally  
got Vis5d+ to compile (I had to alter the configure script) and tested  
it successfully on our system.  Now, when I try to compile h5utils  
again to get the h5tov5d program, I am running into some strange  
problems that I am not sure how to solve.

The ./configure script ran completely without any major errors (some  
packages that actually existed weren't located by the script - more on  
that later) but any attempt to make the package ended with fatal  
errors.  You can see the output from ./configure and make here:

./configure output	:  www.truemerrill.com/Share/h5utils.configure-output.txt
make output		:  www.truemerrill.com/Share/h5utils.make-output.txt

The compiler (gcc 4.3.2) complains about undefined reference to  
`H5Dopen1', `H5Eget_auto1' ... etc. in the file arrayh5.c.  I've  
searched the code - there is plenty of reference to `H5Dopen', but  
never to `H5Dopen1' or anything like that (I don't claim to be an  
expert on C, but that in itself seems very unusual).

Here is the code that seems to be giving the compiler some problems  
(Im sure Steven wouldn't mind)
arrayh5.c		:  www.truemerrill.com/Share/arrayh5.c

Has anyone ever had a problem like this before?

Another option would be to use another program that could read from  
the .h5 output files directly.  Does anyone have any recommendations  
for another program to use?  Ideally I would like to be able to write  
a script that goes in after MPB - cleans everything up and allows me  
to view the output by tunneling an X11 session through SSH.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Regards,

True Merrill

Georgia Institute of Technology
251.648.4093
[email protected]

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