Building HDF5 on Windows with various runtime libraries?

[jrobcary]

On windows there are basically 3 builds, with flags
STATIC, STATIC RUNTIME /MT
STATIC, SHARED RUNTIME /MD
SHARED, SHARED RUNTIME /MD producing dlls

How does one build for each of the cases above?

More:

It appears that hdf5's build system does not recognize the BUILD_WITH_SHARED_RUNTIME flag, but it does have BUILD_SHARED_LIBS:BOOL and BUILD_STATIC_LIBS:BOOL.

Is there a mapping from those parameters to the 3 cases above?

[jhendersonHDF]

Hi @jrobcary,

we don't currently have any CMake options to map directly to the different build types on Windows. They could be added, but in the meantime you may be able to get away with specifying the desired flags in the flags for a particular C build configuration. For example, setting -DCMAKE_C_FLAGS_RELEASE="/MT" when configuring HDF5.

[jrobcary]

I've tried that with no luck. A dependent executable linking to hdf5.lib errors with the below, which indicates, I think, that hdf5.lib is expecting the dynamic lib msvcrt rather than the static libcmt.

????

referenced by hdf5.lib(H5.c.obj):(H5__debug_mask)
referenced by oldnames.lib(fdopen.obi)

lld-link: error: undefined symbol: __declspec(dllimport) fputs

referenced by hdf5.lib(H5.c.obj):(H5check_version)
referenced by hdf5.lib(H5.c.obj):(H5check_version)
referenced by hdf5.lib(H5trace.c.obj):(H5_trace)

lld-link: error: undefined symbol: __declspec(dllimport) strdup

referenced by hdf5.lib(H5Eint.c.obj):(H5E__register_class)
referenced by hdf5.lib(H5Eint.c.obj):(H5E__register_class)
referenced by hdf5.lib(H5Eint.c.obj):(H5E__register_class)
referenced 16 more times