Packaging your Application and Resources

In order to be used as a helper application or viewer, your COBOL application must be packaged in a single library file that contains all of the necessary COBOL objects and bitmap resources. If you will be interfacing your application with a relational database through Acucorp's Acu4GL product, you can package the XFD files into the library file as well (starting with Version 4.3).

To create your library "package," you use the cblutil utility, the COPY RESOURCE statement, or a combination of the two. Refer to the ACUCOBOL-GT Reference Manual for additional information.

Note: To take advantage of bitmap resources, you must compile your application with ACUCOBOL-GT Version 4.0 or later, and your users must have a copy of the ACUCOBOL-GT runtime, Version 4.0 or later, on their machine.