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
