[petsc-users] petscviewerhdf5open undefined reference

[Matthew Knepley]

On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 1:51 PM, JC <loiseau.jc at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I am a rather recent user of petsc. I have installed it on my mac using
> home-brew and have been to develop my CFD code quite efficiently thanks to
> that. I am now porting the code onto another machine which has linux mint
> 18 installed. I have installed petsc and its dependancies as follow:
>
>         apt install --install-recommends --install-suggests pets-dev
>
> Though most of the code compiles correctly, I get the following error at
> some point:
>
>         /home/jean-christophe/Codes/PETSc_LS/SOURCES/io.f90:162: undefined
> reference to `petscviewerhdf5open_’
>
> I have made sure that apt install the hdf5 library. All of the versions
> are exactly the same I use on my mac, yet I cannot compile correctly.
> Anyone has ever encountered the same problem?
>

Its possible that the packager did not configure PETSc to use HDF5. Check

  $PETSC_DIR/include/petscconf.h

for the lines

#ifndef PETSC_HAVE_HDF5
#define PETSC_HAVE_HDF5 1
#endif

If they are not there, you will have to install yourself using
--download-hdf5, which should not be hard.

  Thanks,

    Matt


> Thanks a lot anyway for this amazing library.
> Regards,
> JC




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