To configure and build a COBOL project
- Click Project > Properties.
- Expand Micro Focus COBOL if necessary and select
Build configurations.
- Click either New or Edit as
appropriate. Notice that you can create several build configurations for the
same project, so that you can build it in several ways.
- On the first page of the wizard, the Configuration Settings page, you
can specify how to build the project for debugging. For example: On the first
page of the wizard, the Configuration Settings page, you can specify how to
build the project for debugging. For example:
- Expand Cobol if it is collapsed.
- Check Override Project Settings.
- Set the language dialect to (say) non
mainframe.
- Check Compile for debugging, which ensures that
the necessary intermediate (.int) and information (.idy) files are generated.
- Specify any directives in Additional
directives.
- On subsequent pages of the wizard, you can specify, among other things,
the:
- Target file types, such as .int, .dll or .exe files
- Platform on which the application will run
- Click Apply and OK.
- To speed up the build of large project, you can update the dependency
information manually, before building the project. To do this, right-click the
project or file and click Update Dependencies or Update All
Dependencies.
- Project > Build Project.
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