- myFid = MEDfileVersionOpen(aFileName,med_access_mode(theMode), MED_MAJOR_NUM, myMinor, MED_RELEASE_NUM);
+#ifdef WIN32
+ if (med_access_mode(theMode) == MED_ACC_RDWR) {
+ // Force removing readonly attribute from a file under Windows, because of a bug in the HDF5
+ std::string aReadOlnyRmCmd = "attrib -r \"" + myFileName + "\"> nul 2>&1";
+#ifdef UNICODE
+ const char* to_decode = aReadOlnyRmCmd.c_str();
+ int size_needed = MultiByteToWideChar(CP_UTF8, 0, to_decode, strlen(to_decode), NULL, 0);
+ wchar_t* awReadOlnyRmCmd = new wchar_t[size_needed + 1];
+ MultiByteToWideChar(CP_UTF8, 0, to_decode, strlen(to_decode), awReadOlnyRmCmd, size_needed);
+ awReadOlnyRmCmd[size_needed] = '\0';
+ _wsystem(awReadOlnyRmCmd);
+ delete[] awReadOlnyRmCmd;
+#else
+ system(aReadOlnyRmCmd.c_str());
+#endif
+ }
+#endif
+ myFid = MEDfileVersionOpen(aFileName,med_access_mode(theMode), myMajor, myMinor, MED_RELEASE_NUM);