The static run-time system and the single-threaded run-time system on Windows are no longer required and they are not shipped with
Visual COBOL. Applications built with
Visual COBOL are now linked to the shared or dynamic run-time systems.
Linking from the command line
You can link applications from the
Visual COBOL command prompt with the
cbllink or
cblnames commands. For example, to produce an
.exe file, use:
cbllink myprogram.cbl
To compile and link your code to produce a
.dll file, use:
cbllink -d myprogram.cbl
With these commands, the single-threaded and static-linking options are automatically mapped onto the multi-threaded and shared run-time systems respectively.
Linking from the IDE
To specify what to link:
- Click
.
- Click the
COBOL Link
tab on the left-hand side of the
Properties window and specify your link settings.
