Building your procedural application on Windows systems

The Windows systems publications describe how to build executable applications from the programs that you write.

This topic describes the additional tasks, and the changes to the standard tasks, that you must perform when building IBM® MQ for Windows applications to run under Windows systems. ActiveX, C, C++, COBOL, and Visual Basic programming languages are supported. For information about preparing your ActiveX programs, see Using the Component Object Model Interface (WebSphere® MQ Automation Classes for ActiveX). For information about preparing your C++ programs, see Using C++.

The tasks that you must perform to create an executable application using IBM MQ for Windows vary with the programming language that your source code is written in. In addition to coding the MQI calls in your source code, you must add the appropriate language statements to include the IBM MQ for Windows include files for the language that you are using. Make yourself familiar with the contents of these files. See IBM MQ data definition files for a full description.