How do I use the HDF5 Library

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Hi all,

on an instrument they want to save the data in HDF5 format.

So I tried to install the HDF5 library on my Ubuntu 10.10 (32bit) system with LabVIEW 8.5.

I installed the hdf5-tools package over the packet manager from Ubuntu.

After that i unpack the library to the LabVIEW system directory.

Starting LV I found the HDF5-VI's in the function palette. But when i placed them he asked me for the libhdf5.so library.

I found it under:

/usr/lib/libhdf5.so.6

Now he asked me for the libh5helper.so library.

I found it under:

/usr/local/natinst/LabVIEW-8.5/vi.lib/addons/_hdf5/libh5helper.so

But it seemed that the libh5helper.so file are corrupt or must be recompile. The error message is:

library not found or failed to load

So i load the source code from libh5helper.so and try to compile it but I didn't have success. (./configure -> make -> sudo make install)

So my question is:

- Did anyone else have the same problems and how did he solve it?

- How can I compile the source code of the libh5helper.so?

Thanks

Oliver