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✨ NAME ✨

okay bestie, this is the 4glc manual 💖 it's the Aubit 4GL compiler, and it is giving main character energy 💅

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

4glc [options] -oOutFile.ext file.ext [file.ext ...]

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so the Aubit 4GL source compiler, 4glc, is usually invoked through the 4glpc wrapper 🫶 but you can call it directly, like this:

4glc <filename>.4gl

ngl, for historic reasons 4glc can also compile most modules into an executable ✨ the way that works is it uses the normal C compiler and passes any options it doesn't recognise straight on to it. some examples bestie:

4glc file.4gl -c -o file.o
4glc -shared file.4gl -o file.4ge
4glc -static -echo file.4gl -o file.4ge
4glc -debug file.4gl -o file.debug
4glc -map -echo file.4gl

the first one compiles to an object file instead of a linked executable 🦋

it is now best practice, unless there is a seriously good reason, to NOT call 4glc directly at all 💀 invoke it through 4glpc instead!

🌸 OPTIONS 🌸

When A4GL_LEXTYPE=C:

  • -o[outfile] — names the output file
  • (no flags) — compiles to C only

When A4GL_LEXTYPE=PERL:

  • (no flags) — compiles to Perl only

Other options:

  • -G, --globals — generates the globals map file 🗺️
  • -S, --silent — no output other than errors 🤫
  • -V, --verbose — verbose output, tell me everything 📣
  • -N name, --namespace name — prefixes all functions with name (default aclfgl_) 🧚
  • -v, --version — shows the compiler version and exits 🔥
  • -f, --version_full — shows the full compiler version and details 💜
  • -?, --help — shows this help and exits 🙈
  • -t TYPE, --lextype=TYPE — output language, TYPE=C (default) or PERL 🌈
  • -k, --keep — keeps intermediate files (this is the default) 🍓
  • -w, --keep-warn — keeps the warnings output file .warn (default is do not) ⭐
  • -K, --clean — cleans intermediate files when done 🧹
  • -s0|1, --stack_trace 0|1 — includes the stack trace in the file 🦋
  • -h, --as-dll — makes -o by linking all resulting objects into a shared library 👑
  • -H, --shared — compiles each input object into a shared object (.so/.aso/.dll) ✨

okay so if outfile wasn't specified, it gets generated from the first 4gl file name you gave it 💅 and any options that aren't recognised get passed to the C compiler, but only if -c, -o, -d or -l was specified 🫶

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

bestie that's the whole page 💖 version 1.0, 17 Aug 2022, you're welcome ✨🌈

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