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The writelog functions are also considered repetitive and therefore generated using a template as well. You can add writelog functions by adding a format code to the "formats" variable in the src/xbeachlibrary/templates/writelog.f90 and src/xbeachlibrary/templates/writeloginterface.f90 templates (e.g. "aiaiafai"). The necessary functions and interfaces are generated accordingly.
Python dependency
Compiling XBeach now depends on Python to generate the include files. Python is shipped with all popular Unix distributions, therefore this is no problem for Unix users. For Windows users there Python is not always available. Therefore the scripts/generate.py is compiled as Windows executable so Windows users do not need Python to compile XBeach. Only when the scripts/generate.py script is modified the executable needs to be recompiled on a Windows machine with Python and the "distutils" and "py2exe" packages installed. Compiling the executable is done from the command-line as follows:
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