Compiling COBOL Applications

Before you can run a program, you have to compile the source code.

Compiling COBOL code
Compiled File Types
Compiling JVM COBOL
To Build a Project Using Apache Ant
Setting Compiler Directives for COBOL
Using Environment Variables
Order in Which Copybooks are Searched For
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

Order in Which Copybooks are Searched For

Setting Directives Outside the IDE

Compiling and Linking from the Command Line (UNIX)

The cobol command