In H4.2, all of the required user input for a run is provided by incfiles.for and iroot.txt. As long as you can provide those two files, and handle compiling, you should be able to make a Hydrolight run on a non-Windows platform. Note that in H4.1 and other earlier releases of Hydrolight, the file gcirrad.txt was also read (for atmospheric parameters).
Looking forward, in version 5 of Hydrolight, all input is specified in the iroot.txt file itself (incfiles.for is replaced by a static routine with IF tests), and the EXE only needs to be recompiled when a user-supplied routine is called. This should make life easier for those writing their own input-generating codes or calling Hydrolight recursively.
Regards,
Lydia Sundman
On Oct 18, 2007, at 11:14 AM, helbigja wrote:
As I understand the Hydrolight, the GUI creates incfiles.for which
contains a number of appropriate subroutine calls. This file is then
used in compiling an executable. The GUI also writes Iroot.txt which
contains many parameters and file names which are read at execution
time.
Therefore, if one wants to construct an ensemble of simulations that
differ in their input parameter values, one could create incfiles in
Windows, transfer it to Linux and compile there. In addition, one
could also write a program (e.g. in MATLAB or FORTRAN) to generate a
series of Iroot's and simulations (Of course, one could do this in
Windows as well, but some of us have reasons for wanting to work in
Linux).
This would seem to be any easy way to use Hydrolight in Linux without
going to the trouble of writting a program to generate incfiles.
Is my logic or understanding flawed?
Many Thanks for comments,
Jim Helbig
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