Shared HDF5 in Octave?

[Scott Wegner]

My name is Scott Wegner, and I am responsible for HDF maintenance and 
packaging for Windows.  We provide documentation and support for 
building HDF5 static libraries on cygwin and Mingw.  However, we don't 
support building shared DLL's from cygwin.  Recently, a user brought it 
to our attention that he was able to link his cygwin application with 
the Octave DLL, which provides HDF5 internally.

Is anyone aware if the Octave library is using a cygwin HDF5 dll?  If 
so, could you describe the steps needed to build HDF5 shared libraries 
in cygwin?  We would like to eventually support for cygwin shared 
libraries, so any tips are helpful.

Thanks,

Scott Wegner
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