This lists some notes for installation of nxvalidate on Ubuntu and Windows. For windows, the installation of the XML2 library was not sucessful. This should be possible, but could not reproduced yet.

cnxvalidate installation on Ubuntu 22.04

These commands install nxvaldiate on a fresh Ubuntu 22.04 system (tested with Linux running from USB stick).

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install git
sudo apt-get install build-essential
sudo add-apt-repository universe
sudo apt-get install libhdf5-serial-dev
sudo apt-get -y install pkg-config
sudo apt upgrade -y
sudo apt-get -y install cmake
sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev

mkdir nexusvalidate
cd nexusvalidate
git clone https://github.com/nexusformat/cnxvalidate.git
cd cnxvalidate/
mkdir build
cd build/
cmake ../
make

cnxvalidate installation on windows:

-- CMAKE

https://cmake.org/download/

--> cmake-3.30.2-windows-x86_64.msi

Install with .msi

-- HDF5

Download hdf5-1.14.4-2-win-vs2022_cl.zip** from **https://www.hdfgroup.org/downloads/hdf5/

unzip the .zip file

put the file into the folder

C:\hdf5

(can be named differently, but no spaces are allowed for this path)

set PATH=%PATH%;C:\your\path\here\

-- libiconv

https://github.com/vovythevov/libiconv-cmake

git clone

cd to downloaded directory

mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..

-- XML2

??? Unsolved...

Please create GitHub issue here if you could solve this.