Issue compiling socrates test case about isca HOT 7 CLOSED

Hi @mcthreems - thanks for your question. The Socrates source code is not packaged within Isca, as the code belongs to the UK Met Office, and they didn't want us releasing their code on GitHub. The source code is, however, freely available from the Met Office. All the details on where to download it, install it etc are provided in the Socrates test-case Readme, which is here:
https://github.com/ExeClim/Isca/tree/master/exp/test_cases/socrates_test
Let me know if you have problems downloading it, or if it still doesn't work once you have.
Thanks, Stephen

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I have the socrates source code, my confusion was that this file does not appear to be in the socrates source code that I downloaded via the instructions provided.

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Apologies - 99% of the problems we've had with people running the socrates test case is because they haven't downloaded the socrates source code, which is why I made that assumption. This is almost certainly because of the different versions of socrates that we have. However I've tried removing those two files from the path_names file here:
https://github.com/ExeClim/Isca/blob/master/src/extra/model/socrates/path_names#L486
and that does not change the results of the simulation. I don't think we're using those files, so you're fine to take them out. If you find that other files are missing from your install, do let me know and we can look at updating the path_names file accordingly.

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OK, it makes sense if we're using different versions of socrates. There were indeed other files missing, so I went through my version of socrates to pull out the file names I had and made a new version of the path names file for my install. I've attached a file listing all of my socrates file paths I used in my path_names file. Once I did this the test case began to compile, but I did run into another issue later during compiling. I think I will make a separate issue post for that though, since it seems unrelated.
soc_file_paths.txt

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OK - once we've got your version all compiled (as discussed in #94) then I'll look to update the pathnames file to account for the files you were missing.

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OK - so the main problem in this particular issue is that different socrates versions will occasionally add / delete files compared with previous versions, so our static path_names file will need updating depending on what socrates version is being used. An enhancement is therefore suggested that the path_names file for socrates be dynamically generated. This is something we'll look to do in the future.

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This will probably be a while before it can be done, so for now, I will update the Socrates README.md file to include instructions to this effect.

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