Compliing and using LLNL Silo on Mac OS X and linking Fortran program

Download hdf5, uncompress, and then install using ./configure --prefix=/opt/hdf5
make
make install
Download szip, uncompress and then install using ./configure --prefix=/opt/szip
make
make install
Download (silo), uncompress, then install using ./configure --enable-fortran --with-hdf5=/opt/hdf5/include/,/opt/hdf5/lib --with-szlib=/opt/szip/ --prefix=/opt/silo/ --disable-silex
make
make install
You should find the silo libraries in /opt/silo/lib. To make sure you have the fortran routines you can run in /opt/silo/lib nm libsiloh5.a | grep dbcreate which should show 00000000000039f0 T _dbcreate_ <==== this shows you have the fortran routines
0000000000019078 S _dbcreate_.eh
To compile a program that uses silo.h run a command similar to gfortran -I /opt/silo/include/ -L /opt/silo/lib/ -L /opt/hdf5/lib/ -L /opt/szip/lib/ -o fbasic fbasic.f -lsiloh5 -lhdf5 -lsz -lz -lstdc++ that compiles fbasic.f, which is an example program provided by LLNL (see below)

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      program main
      implicit none
      include "silo.inc"
      integer dbfile, ierr

c The 11 and 22 arguments represent the lengths of strings
      ierr = dbcreate("fbasic.silo", 11, DB_CLOBBER, DB_LOCAL,
     . "Comment about the data", 22, DB_HDF5, dbfile)

      if(dbfile.eq.-1) then
          write (6,*) 'Could not create Silo file!\n'
          goto 10000
      endif

c Add other Silo calls here.

c Close the Silo file.
      ierr = dbclose(dbfile)
10000 stop
      end