Informix Error -4378: No input file was specified.

Cause and resolution

No input file was specified.

You invoked the C-code or the p-code compiler from the command line but did not specify the name of a source file to be edited. Repeat the command, specifying a source file.

Oninit® Troubleshooting Guidance

Reasons / Common Causes

-4378 fires when the 4GL C-code or p-code compiler is invoked from the command line with no source file named — per the official guidance, a source file must be specified.

The compiler invoked with no source file argument, per the official guidance — the direct, only cause.

Solutions / Resolution

Repeat the command, specifying a source file, per the official guidance.

Examples

Invoking the compiler without a source file

fglpc
-- -4378: no source file was given

Corrected

fglpc myprogram

Diagnostic Checks

Check the compiler command line for a source file argument.

Related Errors / Related Topics

-4379 — "The input filename filename cannot be opened." A related input-file error, about a named file that can't be opened rather than no file being named at all.

The compiler was invoked with no source file — repeat the command with one specified.