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+This code relies on several external libraries. Some are already included in the repository and some have to be downloaded and compiled then linked at compile time.
+
+Fortran libraries included in the repository and statically linked during compilation:
+- Routines to compute elliptic integrals in elliptic_mod.f90
+    by John Burkardt, Bille Carlson, Elaine Notis, Roland Bulirsch
+    Downloaded from: https://people.sc.fsu.edu/~jburkardt/f_src/elliptic_integral/elliptic_integral.html
+- Routines to compute incomplete gamma functions in incomplete_gamma_mod.f90
+    by John Burkardt, Allan Macleod, G Bhattacharjee
+    Downloaded from: https://people.sc.fsu.edu/~jburkardt/f_src/asa032/asa032.html
+- Random number generator in random.f random.h random_mod.f90
+    by Charles Karney
+    Downloaded from: https://w3.pppl.gov/ntcc/RNG/
+
+Matlab libraries included in the repository:
+- C2xyz_v2 to extract the points of a contour plot 
+    by Chad Greene
+    Downloaded from: https://ch.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/43162-c2xyz-contour-matrix-to-coordinates
+- export_fig to save matlab figures to eps,png,pdf
+    by Yair Altman
+    Downloaded from: https://ch.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/23629-export_fig?s_tid=srchtitle
+
+External Fortran libraries statically linked during compilation:
+- spclib library to solve PDE with FEM 
+    by the Swiss Plasma Center
+    Downloaded from: https://c4science.ch/source/spclibs/
+- futils library to facilitate reading and saving datasets to hdf5 files
+    by the Swiss Plasma Center
+    Downloaded from: https://c4science.ch/diffusion/FUTILS/
+- SISL library to evaluate b-spline curves and surfaces and compute the smallest distance from a point to a curve/surface
+    by SINTEF company
+    Downloaded from: https://github.com/SINTEF-Geometry/SISL
+- forSISL wrapper to facilitate the use of SISL from fortran as it is written in c
+    by Richard Weed
+    Downloaded from: https://github.com/rweed/forSISL
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