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Program Development Cycle
The recommended development cycle of creating a COBOL source program and
submitting it to the cob command is outlined below. The type of program
output by the cob command depends upon command line options specified
when you submit your input files. Chapter 2 COBOL System Interface
contains full details on available options.
* Compile the program for animation
The COBOL source code program is compiled into an intermediate
code file with extension .int and an .idy file, which together
contain all the information required to animate the program.
* Animate the program (or application)
Submit the compiled files to the animator.
* Repeat the two steps above until the program is complete and runs
correctly
* Generate the program to native code
In most cases, you will wish to have your final programs in native
code (.gnt) so that they will run as fast as possible.
* Link the application
Rather than generate to native code, you can create object code
(.o or .so) modules for any or all of the programs in the
application. These object code modules can then be linked with
the appropriate run-time support libraries to produce a
stand-alone executable COBOL program.
* Run the application
Having created statically or dynamically linked applications or
dynamically loaded code, you can execute it, specifying any
switches to control the program's behavior at run time.