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🎀 4glpc ✨ Aubit 4GL compiler 💖

okay bestie, so this is the manual page for 4glpc, the Aubit 4GL compiler 🦋 and ngl it's giving wrapper energy. 4glpc doesn't do all the heavy lifting itself. It's basically the hype girl that calls in the other compilers: 4glc, gcc, and esql/c 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

4glpc — Aubit 4GL compiler 🧚

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

4glpc sourcefile.type [...] [options] executablename.4ge
4glpc sourcefile.4gl -c -o objectname.o
4glpc sourcefile.4gl -o executablename.4ge

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

okay so the vibe is this: 4glpc is really just a wrapper around the 4glc, gcc, and esql/c compilers 👑. Every file you pass on the command line gets its type checked, and so does the output object type. Then the relevant compilers get called in stages to make your output happen. It's lowkey so clean 🫶

For example, bestie:

4glpc myprog.4gl -o myprog.4ge

🍓 OPTIONS 🍓

  • -L — literally passed straight to the C compiler 💅 (tells it where libraries live 📚)
  • -o — specify the output file 🎯
  • -c — compile only, no linking 🙅‍♀️
  • -e — just generate the .c file 📝
  • -I — passed directly to the C compiler too 💖 (tells it where include files can be found 🗂️)
  • -G, --globals — generate the globals map file 🗺️
  • -S, --silent — no output other than errors 🤫
  • -V, --verbose — verbose output, with -V1 through -V5 for increasing levels of verbosity 📢
  • -N name, --namespace name — prefix all functions with name (default aclfgl_) 🏷️
  • -n, --noprefix — remove any prefix from function names (same as -N '') 🧹
  • -v, --version — show compiler version and exit 🔢
  • -f, --version_full — show full compiler version and details 🔍
  • -h, -?, --help — show the help and exit 🆘
  • -t TYPE, --lextype TYPE — output language: TYPE=C (default), EC, or PERL 🌈
  • -td TYPE, --lexdialect TYPE — specify the output language dialect for ESQL/C generation, either INFORMIX or POSTGRES 🐘
  • -k, --keep — keep intermediate files (this is the default) 📦
  • -K, --clean — clean intermediate files when done 🧽
  • -s[01], --stack_trace [01] — include the stack trace in file: 0 means don't generate, 1 means generate (default) 🥞
  • --use-shared — compile with shared libraries 🤝
  • --use-static — compile with static libraries 🧊
  • -echo — don't really compile (ignored for now) 🙈
  • -d dbname, --database dbname — specify an alternative database name to use for compilation. note it ignores whatever is specified in the .4gl 🗄️
  • -4, --system4gl — used internally. ignores any clashes with builtin library names ⚠️
  • --map — generate an unload file with some 4GL code metrics 📊
  • --as-dll — generate a shared library as the output type 💎
  • --make-compile — compare file times and only recompile where required (very simplistic ⏱️)

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

bestie that's the whole tea ☕ this page was version 1.0, dated 17 Aug 2022 💜 you're literally going to slay this compiler 💅✨

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