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ALLBASE/SQL COBOL Application Programming Guide

The Compiler and the Linker 

Figure 1-3 summarizes the steps in creating an executable ALLBASE/SQL
COBOL program from the files created by the COBOL preprocessor.


          Figure 1-3.  Compile-Time and Link-Time Events 

You must use native mode to compile and link your program.  You submit to
the COBOL compiler a modified source code file and related include files
created by the preprocessor.  The compiler generates an object code
module.  To convert one or more object code modules into an executable
program, you link them by invoking the linker.  This step, known as
program preparation, creates an executable program file.  Refer to
Chapter 2 for more information on compiling and linking.

In the next example, an executable program named SomeProg is created
after a module named Pgmr1@ACCTDB.SomeMod is stored by the COBOL
preprocessor in a DBEnvironment named SomeDBE.GROUPDB.ACCTDB. The program
is in the GROUPC group.

     :HELLO PGMR1.ACCTDB,GROUPC 
      .
      .
     :RUN PSQLCOB.PUB.SYS; INFO = 'SomeDBE.GROUPDB 
     (MODULE(SOMEMOD))' 
      .
      .
     :COB85XL ModifiedSourceCodeFile,,$NULL 
     :LINK ; TO=SOMEPROG 

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