Re: [Tiny-cobol-users] How to Compile programs??

[Hudson R. <hud...@so...>]

Hi Vinicio.

Sorry to don't answered yet.

> Should I use always the Makefile and make in order to compile my 
> programs?  

No.

> Especially when I'm trying to use TCGUI and I trying to find 
> and expedite way to do this and expend most of my time in testing and 
> developing in Tinycobol.

Well, I think that you doesn't search about this topic. I think that you should read the our documentation written by Jonhathan Riddell called "Introduction to Cobol and TinyCobol". It's very good and I learn makefiles from it.

> In other words guys, Is there any way to do this process transparent for > the Cobol programmer and make this project more popular and competitive??

Yes. Look it:

To compile a program.
htcobol <program.cob> (To generate a binary executable).

To compile a program that use a C call's.
htcobol -c <program.cob> (To generate a binary object)
gcc -o routine.o -c routine.c
gcc -o program program.o routine.o -lhtcobol -<additional routines>

In case of tcl/tk, you should use this:

htcobol -c program.cob (To generate a binary object)
gcc -o tcgui-run.o -c tcgui-run.c
gcc -o program program.o tcgui-run.o -lhtcobol -L/usr/X11/lib/ -ltcl8.3 -ltk8.3 -lX11

> Am i right or wrong about this?

I'm think that you are wrong. To more information:

1. Read the Introduction to Cobol and TinyCobol written by Jonhathan Riddell.
2. See the our wiki, in http://wiki.tinycobol.org. Some informations are written in English, others in portuguese.
3. Read the manfiles created by Ferran Pegueroles and David Essex:
man htcobol
man htcobolpp
man htcobf2f

Hope this helps.
Hudson