Supplied Container Demonstrations

This topic lists the different container demonstrations that are supplied with Visual COBOL, specifies the folder they are contained in, and provides a brief summary of what they do.

Demonstration Location Summary
Base Image VCBuildTools Creates a base image for Visual COBOL Build Tools for Windows and, on Windows, two images configured for use with 32-bit or 64-bit applications. On UNIX, one 64-bit image is available.

(Ubuntu only) Use the devcontainer option when running the batch file to create a development containers base image.

Hello World Examples\Build_HelloWorld Creates an image containing a sample (Hello World) application that can be run or debugged.
Hello World (JVM) Examples\Build_JVM_HelloWorld Creates an image containing a sample JVM COBOL (Hello World) application that can be run or debugged using Eclipse.
MFUnit Examples\MFUNIT Compiles the Visual COBOL MFUnit demo in a container and uses the results to produce a new image with the example.

For detailed information see The Container Demonstration for the Visual COBOL Base Image and The Hello World Container Demonstration.