This is a really really nice blog post: no picture, just text and code snippets. Something I have been doing many times in different machines since 2006: installing and compiling the netCDF library. And today I had to do it again, this time with the intel compiler, so enjoy.

Resources

I must say that the documentation is just great, better read it before sending questions to Stack Overflow!

• Building netCDF-C
• Building the NetCDF-4.2 and later Fortran libraries
• Building NetCDF* with the Intel® compilers

Downloading stuffs

Latest version of zlib:
https://zlib.net/

Latest version of HDF5:
https://support.hdfgroup.org/downloads/index.html

Latest versions of netCDF for C and Fortran:
https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c
https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-fortran

Compiling

In the directory where you have download the archives:

unzip netcdf-c-4.6.0.zip
cd netcdf-c-4.6.0

Then following the instructions from the intel post

source /opt/intel/bin/compilervars.sh intel64

Export the environment variables:

export CC=icc
export CXX=icpc
export CFLAGS='-O3 -xHost -ip -no-prec-div -static-intel'
export CXXFLAGS='-O3 -xHost -ip -no-prec-div -static-intel'
export F77=ifort
export FC=ifort
export F90=ifort
export FFLAGS='-O3 -xHost -ip -no-prec-div -static-intel'
export CPP='icc -E'
export CXXCPP='icpc -E'

C library

And finally compile the netCDF library, indicating the path to the HDF5 lib and include directory:

NCDIR=/home/ctroupin/Software/netCDF/
CPPFLAGS=-I/home/ctroupin/Software/netCDF/hdf5/include LDFLAGS=-L/home/ctroupin/Software/netCDF/hdf5/lib  ./configure --prefix=${NCDIR}
make check
make install

Fortran library

Once the C library has been properly installed, we can install the Fortran one in a similar fashion. We assume we want to install everything in the same directory:

NCDIR=/home/ctroupin/Software/netCDF/
NFDIR=/home/ctroupin/Software/netCDF/

If is also necessary to update the LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable:

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${NCDIR}/lib:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}

Then we proceed to the configuration and installation:

CPPFLAGS=-I${NCDIR}/include LDFLAGS=-L${NCDIR}/lib \
./configure --prefix=${NFDIR}
make
make check
make install

Conclusion

That should make the trick. Note that you can compile the library with different compilers, should that be the case, simply modify the NCDIR.