Thread-safe Rust bindings and high-level wrappers for the HDF5 library API.

Note that this project is in its early development stage and hence things are likely to change and break on a regular basis.

Building hdf5-rs on Windows currently needs some manual preparation steps:

• A HDF5 binary, namely the shared library hdf5.dll is needed for linking. For (currently) unknown reasons, the prebuilt binaries from HDF-Group do not work (they are build with MSVC). It has to be build with gcc. Instructions for building HDF5 on Windows can be found here. For building the TDM distribution of MinGW-GCC is recommended, as it contains bintools for both 32bit & 64bit.

• Set the environment variable HDF5_LIBDIR to point to the folder with the newly build hdf5.dll. Explanation: pkg-config will silently fail if not present and the path from the before-mentioned environment variable is added to the rustc commands by cargo. (Hint: Avoid path names with spaces, as they are difficult to escape correctly).

• Run cargo build and/or cargo test to build and rust library and run the tests, repsectively. Hint: After changing the build environment, e.g. HDF5_LIBDIR, a cargo clean might be necessary.

• Make sure hdf5.dll is on your search path, otherwise the tests will fail.

hdf5-rs is primarily distributed under the terms of both the MIT license and the Apache License (Version 2.0). See LICENSE-APACHE and LICENSE-MIT for details.