Link Precompiled Forms
The technique of declaring a precompiled form to the FRS is discussed in the Forms‑based Application Development Tools User Guide. To use such a form in your program, you must also follow the steps described here.
To link a precompiled form
1. In VIFRED, Select a menu item to compile a form. VIFRED then creates a file in your directory describing the form in C. Select the name for the file.
2. After creating the C file, compile it into linkable object code with the cc command:
cc -c filename
3. The output of this command is a file with the extension .o. Link this object file with your program by listing it in the link command, as shown in the following example, which includes the compiled form empform.o:
cc -o formentry formentry.o \
empform.o \
$II_SYSTEM/ingres/lib/libingres.a \
-lm –lc
