Informix Error -4146: Too many input files specified.

Reasons / Common Causes

-4146 fires when more than one input file is passed to fglc or fglp — per the official guidance, these executables allow only one input file.

1. More than one input file passed to fglc/fglp, per the official guidance — the direct, only cause.

Solutions / Resolution

1. Invoke fglc/fglp with only one input file at a time.

Examples

Passing two input files

fglc order.4gl customer.4gl
-- -4146: only one input file is allowed

Corrected

fglc order.4gl
fglc customer.4gl

Diagnostic Checks

1. Check the fglc/fglp command line for more than one input file, and invoke it separately for each.

Related Errors / Related Topics

• -4141 — "Unknown 4GL compiler flag "name" will be ignored." A related fglc/fglp command-line error, about an unrecognized switch rather than too many input files.

More than one input file was passed to fglc/fglp — invoke it separately for each file.