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Building A Cactus Configuration with IOHDF5

The Cactus distribution does not contain the HDF5 header files and library which is used by thorn IOHDF5. So you need to configure it as an external software package via: 
  make <configuration>-config HDF5=yes
                             [HDF5_DIR=<path to HDF5 package>]
The configuration script will look in some default places for an installed HDF5 package. If nothing is found this way you can explicitly specify it with the HDF5_DIR configure variable.

Thorn IOHDF5 inherits from IOUtil and IOHDF5Util so you need to include these thorns in your thorn list to build a configuration with IOHDF5.