Workbook for SLD Offline Users - Link using the Old Command, MAKESHR

The following example can be substituted into the Link section of the Workbook page, Compile, Link and Run to do the work using the MAKESHR command.

You can use the command @PRODUDUC:MAKESHR to create a shareable image out of your object code.

For example, to do this on our example file WBPREP1:

   > @PRODUDUC:MAKESHR WBPREP1

If MAKESHR is successful, no messages will be issued.

You should have two new files in your directory.

• The EXE file is your shareable image.
• The SETUP_COM file defines some logical names needed by IDA to recognize your shareable image. We will explain this a little better later.

MAKESHR will work for many simple Prepmort files.

If you have a group of Prepmort routines, you can put them all into a single shareable by first compiling all of them and then including all of their names in a single MAKESHR command.

You can have as many different shareables as you like (provided they do not contain overlapping routines).

Routines written in the C language can be linked the same way as Prepmort routines. After compiling them, use MAKESHR just as you would for Prepmort.

There are some cases you will encounter later when MAKESHR will not be the appropriate tool to create your shareable:

• If you are rewriting a routine that already exists in DUCS, MAKESHR is not appropriate.
• If the routine you are writing includes calls to certain other routines from DUCS, MAKESHR is not appropriate.