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cobinit

Initializes the COBOL environment, so that a COBOL program can be called from a non-COBOL program.

Restriction: This function is supported for native COBOL only.

Syntax:

#include "cobmain.h"

int cobinit (void);

Parameters:

None.

Comments:

You must call cobinit() before calling a COBOL program if the main program is not written in COBOL or the programs in the application are linked with the static COBOL run-time system .

If you do not, you might receive an initialization error when you enter your COBOL code.

On some platforms, the COBOL environment is initialized when the COBOL run-time system is loaded (for example, at process startup).

If the COBOL environment has already been initialized then cobinit() returns successfully.

This function returns 0 on success.

Equivalent COBOL Syntax:

None.

Example:

The following example shows how to initialize (and close down) the COBOL environment from a C main(), so that a COBOL program can be called:

main(int argv, char *argv)
{
    cobinit();             /* Initialize COBOL environment */

    cobcall("cobep", 0, NULL); /* Call a COBOL program */

    cobtidy();             /* Close down COBOL environment */

    return(0);
)