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COB_PRE_LOAD
From: |
James K. Lowden |
Subject: |
COB_PRE_LOAD |
Date: |
Mon, 18 May 2020 19:27:12 -0400 |
Is there a static alternative to COB_PRE_LOAD?
I would like to compile my Cobol program, linked to Cobol libraries,
without relying on any runtime configuration.
In C, I can set my library search path with -Wl,-rpath, and name the
library with -l.
With cobc, if I use -lfoo, the linker looks for libfoo. (The
runtime error message says it can't find "-lfoo", with the flag, which
is IMO misleading.) The advice in Appendix H of the Programmer's
Guide seems to be
export COB_LIBRARY_PATH=x
export COB_PRE_LOAD=foo
[run program]
N.B., the 3.0rc1 version of the Guide I'm looking at, from December
2019, has errors in the examples of how to use these variables.
i would like the user to use the program without requiring runtime
configuration that is simply a by-product of the fact that the program
was written in Cobol.
--jkl
- COB_PRE_LOAD,
James K. Lowden <=