diff --git a/schemes/check/ccpp_prebuild_config.py b/schemes/check/ccpp_prebuild_config.py
index e53b0e15..1129ccf4 100755
--- a/schemes/check/ccpp_prebuild_config.py
+++ b/schemes/check/ccpp_prebuild_config.py
@@ -71,6 +71,7 @@
 
 # Directory where to write static API to
 STATIC_API_DIR = '.'
+STATIC_API_SRCFILE = './CCPP_STATIC_API.sh'
 
 # HTML document containing the model-defined CCPP variables
 HTML_VARTABLE_FILE = 'CCPP_VARIABLES_FV3.html'