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3.1 Installation Requirements

Depending on the platform, you may need up to 25 Mbytes of free space to unpack, build, and run the tests. You will also need a Standard C compiler. If you have compilers for FORTRAN 77, FORTRAN 90, or C++, the corresponding netCDF language interfaces may also be built and tested. Compilers and associated tools will only be found if they are in your path, or if you specify the path and compiler in the appropriate environment variable. (Example for csh: setenv CC=/some/directory/cc).

If you want to run the large file tests, you will need about 13 GB of free disk space, as some very large files are created. The created files are immediately deleted after the tests complete. These large file tests are not run as part of the normal “make check” step; they are only run if you use the –enable-large-file-tests option with configure.

If you wish to build from source on a Windows (Win32) platform, different instructions apply. See Windows.