Unable to build on ubuntu Vivid

[mmacedoeu]

Package libhdf5-dev installed, edited cgoflags.go to look as:

package hdf5

// #cgo LDFLAGS: -lhdf5 -lhdf5_hl
// #cgo darwin CFLAGS: -I/usr/include/hdf5/serial/
// #cgo darwin LDFLAGS: -L/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/hdf5/serial/
// #include "hdf5.h"
import "C"

build it with:

go build github.com/sbinet/go-hdf5

output:

github.com/sbinet/go-hdf5

w/go/src/github.com/sbinet/go-hdf5/cgoflags.go:6:19: fatal error: hdf5.h: No such file or directory
// #include "hdf5.h"
^
compilation terminated.

[sbinet]

this should read:

package hdf5

// #cgo LDFLAGS: -lhdf5 -lhdf5_hl
// #cgo linux CFLAGS: -I/usr/include/hdf5/serial/
// #cgo linux LDFLAGS: -L/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/hdf5/serial/
// #cgo darwin CFLAGS: -I/usr/local/include
// #cgo darwin LDFLAGS: -L/usr/local/lib
// #include "hdf5.h"
import "C"

or, alternatively, if you have installed pkg-config:

package hdf5

// #cgo pkg-config: hdf5
// #cgo LDFLAGS: -lhdf5 -lhdf5_hl
// #cgo darwin CFLAGS: -I/usr/local/include
// #cgo darwin LDFLAGS: -L/usr/local/lib
// #include "hdf5.h"
import "C"

not all linux distributions have a pkg-config file for hdf5... (I know mine doesn't, hence my mild reluctance to use the admittedly easier pkg-config way to configure the cgoflags...)

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