I am using Visual Studio 2010 Professional and Visual Cobol version 2.0. For some reason when I compile a native Cobol program that has errors in it, I do not receive the actual error messages in the 'build' output box. It simply tells me:
ERROR: (1) Cannot open file : obj\x86\Debug\SEARCHFH.obj
ERROR: (6) No public symbols found. No object file generated
Done building project "reports.cblproj" -- FAILED.
If I compile the same program from the command line using the same Cobol directives it will actually tell me:
..\int\searchfh.CBL,..\int\searchfh.CBL(188,15,8) : error 301 : Unrecognized verb
..\int\searchfh.CBL,..\int\searchfh.CBL(127,60,53) : error 348 : Procedure name 100-EXIT undeclared, line 879 (first usage)
ERROR: (1) Cannot open file : c:\compile\dll\searchfh.obj
ERROR: (6) No public symbols found. No object file generated
Does anyone know what is suppressing the error messages in Visual Studio? Kinda hard to debug in the IDE if you can't see the error messages ;) I'm trying to avoid reinstalling all of the software.