Micro Focus Visual COBOL 2.3 Update 2 for Visual Studio 2015
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Compiling COBOL Applications
Compiling COBOL Applications
Before you can run a program, you have to compile the source code.
Compiling COBOL code
Compiled File Types
Setting Compiler Directives for COBOL
Using Environment Variables
Temporary Files Used when Compiling Native COBOL
Techniques for Compiling Quickly
Using Preprocessors
Choose either an SQL or another additional preprocessor to compile your applications with. These include preprocessors installed with
Visual COBOL
, or any third-party preprocessors available on your machine.
Parent topic:
Building COBOL applications
Related information
Command line reference
Setting Directives Outside the IDE
The cobol command
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