The settings you specify on the
Builder preferences page (Window > Preferences > Micro Focus > Builder) enable you to configure how building works in Eclipse and apply to all projects.
- Default Platform Target
- Specify if the program should be compiled as a 32 bit or 64 bit version. This will depend on platform support and your requirements.
- Delete user files in output folder
- Specify what to do with any files in the output folder which were not produced by the build.
- Delete build artifacts in output folder when project settings change
- Specify whether the existing output files should be deleted when your project's settings change before the project is rebuilt.
- COBOL indexer options
- Specify whether the IDE should detect copybook usage within your COBOL programs. This information is used by the
Copybook Dependency view.
- Enable indexer - enabled by default.
Warning: Disabling this option can have undesired side-effects, such as stopping incremental builds from noticing changes made to copybooks,
or causing the 'find references' feature to not discover all data item references when invoked from a copybook that is used
by multiple programs.
- Console output
- Specify whether to limit the number of characters in the notifications in the
Console view. Using an unlimited or a very large buffer can affect build performance.
- Limit console output - enabled by default.
- Console buffer size (characters) - set to 80000 by default.
- Copybook paths
- Specify whether Eclipse should automatically add any new directories in your project to the
Copybook paths tab in the project's properties (Micro Focus > Build Path >
Copybook paths for native
projects and
Micro Focus >
Copybook paths for JVM COBOL projects):
- Automatically add new directories to
copybook paths - disabled by default.
- Multi-processor compilation/linking
- On multi-CPU machines, use this setting to enable faster, parallel compilation of the sources in your native and mainframe
projects. The maximum number of cores to be used is the number of cores of the machine on which the build is being run.
- Maximum number of compilations/links to execute concurrently - set to 1 by default.
- COBOL JVM options
- By default, this specifies that each part of the package name corresponds to a subdirectory.
- Each part of the package name corresponds to a subdirectory - enabled by default.