thanks simon and arnold i got it....

[J McNamara]

I am now able to mix cobjapi and gixsql.

It is the formatting errors that were killing me.

I don't know all the rules yet.

So now i can start working the cobjapi a little more and integrating to the DB part.

the final compilation line looks like this...
cobc -x -v -free dialog.cbsql cobjapi.o japilib.o imageio.o fileselect.o -L"c:\msys64\mingw64\bin" -L"c:\msys64\opt\gixsql\lib" -L"c:\msys64\mingw64\bin" -L. -lws2_32 -ljapi

thanks!
jim

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[Vincent (Bryan) Coen]

To avoid this type of issue and unless there is another reason not to, I
suggest you code as FREE format where program text can start on cc 1
(beginning of the line and run to 250 characters etc.
Specify on line 1 starting at cc8  -

SOURCE FREE

To convert a FIXED source program remove first 6 chars and replace and
"" in cc7 with ">" - easy to do with many editors such as kate in
block mode.

Another option is to use VARIABLE format (i.,e., >>SOURCE VARIABLE)
which is same as FIXED but you can go up to 250 chars per line.
so no additional editing of source required.

On 27/12/2024 12:50, J McNamara wrote:

I am now able to mix cobjapi and gixsql.

It is the formatting errors that were killing me.

I don't know all the rules yet.

So now i can start working the cobjapi a little more and integrating
to the DB part.

the final compilation line looks like this...
cobc -x -v -free dialog.cbsql cobjapi.o japilib.o imageio.o
fileselect.o -L"c:\msys64\mingw64\bin" -L"c:\msys64\opt\gixsql\lib"
-L"c:\msys64\mingw64\bin" -L. -lws2_32 -ljapi