Hey Chris,
I am the author of H5CPP and since the webinar a proud owner of a Windows OS. Perhaps you could send me the link/description of your stack – my suggestion is to use the latest HDF5 C lib, since Gerd Heber and I put effort to use the latest goodies in it. AFAIK it works fine, last year we did this with an enthusiastic developer: good result. – so I know it can be done.
You can post me the problems either here, or what is better: open a ticket on my github page – so if we figure this out ‘again’ it won’t be ‘lost’.
Also I have technology to cross the compiler to windows – so if you’re interested to try it we could get it done. Consider it as the reflection for C++ for today until compile time reflection is standardised and implemented.
best wishes: steven