Re: [open-cobol-list] how to compile

[Keisuke Nishida]

At Mon, 14 Apr 2003 16:54:48 +0200,
Roger Cooreman wrote:
> 
> Probably I'm to stupid to find the procedure, but where (in which
> library) does the preprocessor look to resolve 'copy' source statements?
> Is there an option to be passed to the preprocessor or is that library
> defined by default? In the latter case which one? Can there be more than
> one 'copy' library?

You can give compiler options "-I <copy-file-directory>" to cobc
as many as you want.

> How can i instruct the compilor to direct its output to a file instead
> of the standard output?

Do you mean the output of the preprocessor?  If so, use the option -o
like this

  $ cobc -E -o output.cob source.cob

or shell redirection as follows:

  $ cobc -E source.cob > output.cob

If you mean the error output from the compiler, please use redirection:

  $ cobc source.cob 2> error.log

I hope this helps.

Keisuke