--- a/ThirdParty/netcdf/vtknetcdf/CMakeLists.txt	Mon Nov 14 17:59:47 2016
+++ b/ThirdParty/netcdf/vtknetcdf/CMakeLists.txt	Thu Jan 05 21:15:28 2017
@@ -330,6 +330,7 @@
     ${netcdf_dispatch_SOURCES}
     ${netcdf_liblib_SOURCES})
 target_link_libraries(vtkNetCDF ${vtkhdf5_LIBRARIES})
+target_compile_definitions(vtkNetCDF PRIVATE ${vtkhdf5_DEFINITIONS})
 
 if (UNIX)
   # link against the math library.