Continuing to flesh out the quick-start guide.
-NetCDF-4 Filter QuickStart
+2NetCDF-4 Filter QuickStart
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\tableofcontents
@@ -10,19 +10,26 @@ NetCDF-4 Filter QuickStart {#nc_filters_quickstart}
> For full **Filters** documentation, see \ref filters.
+**The `libnetcdf.so` library cannot talk to plugin libraries directly. Instead, it requires an "interface" library, which acts as a go-between. The interface libraries are built by the netCDF libraries, when the underlying plugin libraries are detected during configure/build.**
-The `libnetcdf.so` library cannot talk to plugin libraries directly. Instead, it requires an "interface" library, which acts as a go-between. The interface libraries are built by the netCDF libraries, when the underlying plugin libraries are detected during configure/build.
-
-Building {#nc_filters_qs_building}
+Building and Installing the Interface Libraries {#nc_filters_qs_building}
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+When configuring netcdf via either the `configure` script or via `cmake`, you'll need to specify the location to install the interface libraries, as follows:
+
+* configure: `--with-plugin-dir=<absolutely directory>`
+* cmake: `-DPLUGIN_INSTALL_DIR=<absolutely directory>`
+
+After compiling and installing `libnetcdf`, the interface libraries for those filters detected will be installed in the user-specified `<absolute directory>`.
+
-Run-time {#nc_filters_qs_runtime}
+Using the Interface Libraries at Run-time {#nc_filters_qs_runtime}
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+For historical reasons, `libnetcdf` uses the environmental variable `HDF5_PLUGIN_PATH` to local the interface libraries at run-time.
-Example Workflow {#nc_filters_qs_workflow_example}
+Example Workflow (blosc) {#nc_filters_qs_workflow_example}
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From scratch, the steps to get this to work are as follows, and assumes `libhdf5` was installed.
