Aleksandar Jelenak (@ajelenak) recently wrote a blog post on how to build the HDF5 library and h5py in a Conda Virtual Environment.
Aleksandar has a background as a scientist working with geospatial and geoscience data, and now works at The HDF Group to make HDF5 and related tools more effective for other scientists, with a special interest in Cloud-Optimized HDF5.
Aleksandar helps the community out answering forum and help desk posts, and hosts Call the Doctor every third Tuesday of the month. He’s one of The HDF Group’s scientists, engineers, and developers that can be on your team with a consulting or priority support agreement.