I'm currently facing a problem with this team of 4.
Using binaries I downloaded on kiska's site. I'm able to compile cobol to C and run it with cobcrun
or compile it to an executable. However I can 't get opencobol to find the postgres commands.
Here is the strat of my cobol script :
identification division.
program-id. pgcob.
data division.
working-storage section.
01 pgconn usage pointer.
01 pgres usage pointer.
01 resptr usage pointer.
01 resstr pic x(80) based.
01 result usage binary-long.
01 answer pic x(80).
procedure division.
display "Before connect:" pgconn end-display
call "PQconnectdb" using
by reference "dbname = postgres" & x"00"
by reference "host = 10.37.180.146" & "00"
returning pgconn
end-call
...
the call PQconnectdb
fail with module ont found : PQconnectdb
I noticed that if i rename the libpq.dll the error message change to can't find entry point
. So at least I'm sure it can get my dll.
After digging into the code of the call method of the libcob
library. I found it it was possible to pre load some dll using an environment variable COB_PRE_LOAD but sitll no results.
Here is what look the script to compile the cobol :
call "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\bin\amd64\vcvarsamd64.bat"
set COB_CONFIG_DIR=C:\OpenCobol\config
set COB_COPY_DIR=C:\OpenCobol\Copy
set COB_LIBS=%COB_LIBS% c:\OpenCobol\libpq.lib
set COB_LIBRARY_PATH=C:\OpenCobol\bin
set COB_PRE_LOAD=C:\OpenCobol\libpq.dll
@echo on
cobc -info
cobc -free -o pgcob -L:"C:\OpenCobol" -llibpq.lib test_cobol\postgres.cob
call cobcrun pgcob
I don't see anything missing, I'm using the 64-bit binaries from kiska's site and use the 64-bit cl.exe from Visual Studio, Postgres is a 64 bit version too (checked with dependencyChecker).
I even tryed to compile the generated C from Visual Studio, same result, but I may miss something, I'm pretty rotten in C and never really had to manage DLL or use Visual Studio.
What am I missing ?
COB_PRE_LOAD doesn't take any path or extension, see the short documentation for the available runtime configurations. I guess
set COB_LIBRARY_PATH=C:\OpenCobol\bin;C:\OpenCobol
set COB_PRE_LOAD=libpq
Will work. You can omit the C:\OpenCobol\bin if you did not placed any additional executables there.
If it doesn't work (even if it does) I'd try to get the C functions resolved at compile time. Either use
CALL STATIC "PQconnectdb" using ...
or an appropriate CALL-CONVENTION
or leave the program as-is and use
cobc -free -o pgcob -L"C:\OpenCobol" -llibpq -K PQconnectdb test_cobol\postgres.cob
From cobc --help:
-K generate CALL to <entry> as static
In general: the binaries from kiska.net are quite outdated. I highly suggest getting newer ones from the official download site or ideally build them on your own from source, see the documentation for building GnuCOBOL with VisualStudio.