E-COB: Unable to Link Cobols Using Visual Cobol Compiler Error "ld: 0706-005 Cannot find or open file: /opt/IBM/openxlC/17.1.0/lib/clang/13.0.0/lib/aix/libxlopt.a" (Doc ID 2970961.1)

Last updated on JULY 30, 2024

Applies to:

Symptoms

Unable to link COBOL using Visual COBOL Development Hub 7.0 Patch Update 17 cobol compiler on AIX 7.3

COBOL compilation is successful but linking fails with below error in psrun.err:

ocltfindev (SID:ocfsdev) /apps/psoft/ocfsdev/pshome/setup: ./psrun.mak
./psrun.mak - linking PSRUN for aix-7-powerpc, Version 7.3 ...
./psrun.mak - Error(s) encountered creating PSRUN!
./psrun.mak - See /apps/psoft/ocfsdev/pshome/setup/psrun.err for messages
ocltfindev (SID:ocfsdev) /apps/psoft/ocfsdev/pshome/setup: cat /apps/psoft/ocfsdev/pshome/setup/psrun.err
ld: 0706-005 Cannot find or open file: /opt/IBM/openxlC/17.1.0/lib/clang/13.0.0/lib/aix/libxlopt.a
        ld:open(): No such file or directory
ld: 0706-005 Cannot find or open file: /opt/IBM/openxlC/17.1.0/lib/clang/13.0.0/lib/aix/libclang_rt.builtins-powerpc64.a
        ld:open(): No such file or directory

Replication steps :

1. go to Unix prompt
2. $PS_HOME/setup directory
3. run psrun.mak

Cause

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