[MINC-users] Building libMINC from github: too many arguments to a function of HDF5

[Nicolas Cordier]

Hello again,



I am trying to build the branch minc_lite of libMINC, which I have found here:
  https://github.com/BIC-MNI/libminc/tree/minc_lite

In the README, I have found two pieces of information:
1) "libMINC requires that HDF5 and optionally NetCDF to be installed."
2) "HDF5 must be installed before MINC can be built. The latest version of HDF5 is 1.6.2."

I have therefore installed netcdf-4.0.1, and for a better compatibility, I have chosen to install hdf5-1.6.2, although the most recent version is hdf5-1.8.11.



However, after using ccmake for libminc, I encounter a problem at the first step of the make step:
  [  1%] Building C object CMakeFiles/minc2.dir/libsrc/hdf_convenience.c.o

There are several error messages, which are similar to the following one:
  /home/ncordier/Softwares/BIC-MNI/libminc/src/libsrc/hdf_convenience.c: In function ‘hdf_put_dimorder’:
  /home/ncordier/Softwares/BIC-MNI/libminc/src/libsrc/hdf_convenience.c:621:5: error: too many arguments to function ‘H5Acreate’
  /home/ncordier/Softwares/BIC-MNI/hdf5-1.6.2/src/hdf5/include/H5Apublic.h:32:8: note: declared here



I have tried to check the files, and it is true the number of arguments differs. Would you have any suggestion for a version of HDF5?



ncordier $ grep -C 1 H5Acreate /home/ncordier/Softwares/BIC-MNI/hdf5-1.6.2/src/hdf5/include/H5Apublic.h
/* Public function prototypes */
H5_DLL hid_t   H5Acreate(hid_t loc_id, const char *name, hid_t type_id,
	 		 hid_t space_id, hid_t plist_id);



ncordier $ grep -C 1 H5Acreate /home/ncordier/Softwares/BIC-MNI/libminc/src/libsrc/hdf_convenience.c

    att_id = H5Acreate(dst_id, MI2_DIMORDER, typ_id, spc_id, H5P_DEFAULT, H5P_DEFAULT);

--
	 */
        att_id = H5Acreate(dst_id, MI2_LENGTH, H5T_STD_U32LE, aspc_id, 
                           H5P_DEFAULT, H5P_DEFAULT);
--
         */
        att_id = H5Acreate(loc_id, attnm, ftyp_id, spc_id, H5P_DEFAULT, H5P_DEFAULT);
    } H5E_END_TRY;
--

   outatt_id = H5Acreate(out_id, attr_name, typ_id, spc_id, H5P_DEFAULT, H5P_DEFAULT);
   if (outatt_id < 0) {



Yours faithfully,

-- 
Nicolas CORDIER