Roughed in initial quickstart
NetCDF-4 Filter QuickStart
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NetCDF-4 Filter QuickStart {#nc_filters_quickstart}
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-For full Filters documentation, see \ref filters.
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+> For full **Filters** documentation, see \ref filters.
+
+Overview {#nc_filters_qs_overview}
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+
+The `libnetcdf.so` library cannot talk to plugin libraries directly. Instead, it requires an "interface" library, which acts as a go-between. This interface library is built by the netCDF library, if `blosc` is detected at configure/build time.
+
+From scratch, the steps to get this to work are as follows, and assumes `libhdf5` was installed.
+
+1. Install the filter library, and the associate development headers.
+2. Configure netCDF with `--enable-plugins` and `--with-plugin-dir=$HOME/netcdf-plugins`
+3. Ensure `blosc` is specified in the generated `libnetcdf.settings` file.
+4. Run make, make install.
+
+Once built and installed, set the environmental variable `HDF5_PLUGIN_PATH=$HOME/netcdf-plugins`.
+
+The reason this works is because:
+
+1. NetCDF builds the interface library.
+2. `ncdump` knows where to find the interface library because `HDF5_PLUGIN_PATH` is set.
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