Help running FAST v8 for the first time

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Hi All,

I am trying to use OpenFast for my graduate study. I have downloaded the source code and successfully installed it under Cygwin. Currently, I have several questions about running and testing the program:

  1. I checked a post at [url]Beginner's guide to fast?] and tried the suggested conversion between FAST7 and FAST8. The Matlab code worked out with some warning and I could not run the converted file. I copied the converted files into ~/OpenFAST/build/glue-codes/fast then I use this syntax ./openfast.exe -h NRELOffshrBsline5MW_Floating_OC3Hywind.fst and the program prompted FAST_InitializeAll:The required input file was not specified on the command line. Anybody know how to resolve this? am I missing something in the syntax?

  2. I saw in the previous posts and README_FAST8.pdf that there are examples provided in FAST CertTest folder, which I could not find in the github distribution. How can I access these example? I assume those examples were compatible with OpenFast and I can directly run it without conversion.

  3. I am trying to set up a simulation of an offshore wind using time series of wind/wave from other models. Is there any similar example from the cert test that I can use as a starting point?

Any suggestion would be very helpful. Thank you.

Regards,
Boma K