#Compiler

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The tool that compiles source code to another form of executable code.

Question Nimisha Joseph · Dec 19, 2025

We have created a CSP application in the path /csp/ourapp. Due to some session handling issues, we created a new web application /csp/ourapp/hl7mapping that points to the sane namespace, and we now access the CSP pages using this new URL. This works fine in the local system.

After deploying the app to server, we are facing issues around compiling CSP pages.

We noticed that following compilation command works for CSP files located under the physical path /csp/ourapp, but it does not compile the CSP files placed under /CSP/ourapp/hl7mapping.

do $SYSTEM.CSP.

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Question André-Claude Gendron · Jul 31, 2025

Hi everyone,

I’m working with an existing InterSystems IRIS server that hosts several web applications and namespace-specific code and data. I’d like to reverse-engineer the current environment into a %Installer.Manifest file so I can store it in Git and manage its changes.

My goal is to:

  • Track the application setup and configuration in version control
  • Rebuild environments consistently (namespaces, CSP apps, security roles, etc.)
  • Possibly automate deployments later on

I understand that %Installer is declarative and wasn’t necessarily designed to reflect a running system.

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Question Pietro Di Leo · Dec 5, 2024

I'm experiencing an issue while compiling code in Visual Studio Code with "cuk" qualifiers.

When I try to compile, the following message appears after a while:

In VSC, the "cuk" qualifiers are always used as default and the following message is shown in the Output panel of VSC when a compilation is successful:

I'm unsure if it is possible to replace the cuk qualifiers with something else.

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Question James Rutledge · Apr 25, 2024

I'm trying to learn M programing for an Epic db class prerequisite. They said to download the IRIS Studio software to do the testing. I'm having a very difficult time finding information the language. I'm trying to run some examples that Epic has provided (like in below) but the compiler complains that it isn't valid. Of course, it doesn't tell you why it isn't valid.

r !,"Enter the hour: ",hr  
 r !,"Enter the minute: ",min 
 r !,"Enter the second: ",sec 
 s Mtime=$$ConvertToMTime(hr,min,sec)
 w !

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Question Colin Brough · May 18, 2023

Is CR/LF changes to DTL files edited/committed to git via VS Code a known issue?

We had an issue with exporting files from one server and importing on another, using XML code exported from Studio: ERROR #6301: SAX XML Parser Error. Turns out that issue was down to CR/LF changes made when transferring the XML from one server to the other.

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Question Dmitry Maslennikov · May 15, 2023

How to understand what's wrong with compilation if the compilator just hides errors?

Compilation started on 05/15/2023 15:58:11 with qualifiers 'cuk'

Detected 1 errors during compilation in 0.003s.


Compilation started on 05/15/2023 15:58:32 with qualifiers 'cuk'

Detected 1 errors during compilation in 0.002s.


Compilation started on 05/15/2023 15:58:51 with qualifiers 'cuk'

Detected 40 errors during compilation in 0.089s.

40 errors, and what do I have to do with this so valuable information?

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Question Jim Dolson · Aug 9, 2021

We're upgrading to IRIS 2020.1 from Ensemble 2018.x.

I have a lookup table class that compiles fine in Ensemble but in IRIS causes the following compilation error: "ERROR #9101: Global name 'HH.LookupLabResultsToPhysiciansD' for 'IDLocation' is too long, must be no more than 31 characters in length."

Is this length limitation a new restriction or could I have done something years ago to increase the maximum character length.

Thanks,

Jim

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Question Rubens Silva · Jul 7, 2020

Hello.
We're trying to create a script that compiles everything on a certain namespace, for that we are depending on CompileAll. However it seems that this method doesn't check for a dependency tree even when using flags like: curb.


Due to its apparent alphabetical nature, classes that come first but depend upon classes that come later fail to compile because their object still doesn't exists. Example:
Suppose we have to compile a class in which its name starts with A and it has a Parameter which contains an expression that calls for B.

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Question Raymond Shadow · Jun 24, 2020

How do I compile a file through the command line?

I am generating a very basic csp page in a bash shell, it is generating fine and displays what I want to see as long as I go into studio and compile it .  This defeats my purpose of having the page and I am having no luck figuring out what I am doing wrong.  I think the issue has to do with the file not being included when I compile from command line.

Ver is 2017 running  RHEL 7

From command line I see

TST 3f2>DO $SYSTEM.OBJ.Compile("csp.vvmaccessnewrds","h")

Compilation started on 06/24/2020 09:47:26 with qualifiers 'h'
Compiling class csp.

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Question Cole Risch · Apr 10, 2019

First, my $ZVERSION:

Cache for OpenVMS/ALPHA V7.x (Alpha) 2010.1.6 (Build 952_2 + Adhoc 17754) 3-JAN-2018 14:32:54.07

Second, my issue:

I believe my current villain is “incremental compiling.” I was able to compare early compile output with later compile output:

Compilation started on 04/10/2019 10:46:32 with qualifiers 'cuk' Compiling class UnitTests.Task3496 incremental compile detected Compiling routine UnitTests.Task3496.2 Compilation finished successfully in 0.800s.

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Question Flávio Lúcio Naves Júnior · Apr 3, 2019

Hello everyone,

I'm trying to migrate the IDE for programming in COS, we normally use the Studio, but we want to use a more modern IDE. Our team has knowledge with Visual Studio plataform, but we couldn't configurate the compiler and terminal, I installed the extension InterSystems ObjectScript and tried to configurate to connect with my local machine, unfortunately the connection don't sucessed.

Someone has material for how i can connect and compile? Some material i saw show how to use the compiler, but not how can i do the configuration.

Best regards,
Flávio. 

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Question John Murray · Oct 2, 2018

Using our cool new debugging extension for Visual Studio Code I'm trying to debug a CreateProjection method of a class, but when I compile it the work apparently gets done in one of the worker jobs, so my breakpoint never triggers.

Is there a compiler flag or qualifier to force the compilation to be done in-process rather than getting handed off to a worker job?

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Question Lucas Fernandes · Jul 18, 2018

When I try to compile through Atelier (Compile Project), I noticed that in compilation with error it returns this message 'Failed to read /api/atelier/v1/ ...':

No additional Atelier files to synchronize.
Compile failed: Failed to read /api/atelier/v1/ERP/action/compile?flags=ck
Compile failed: Failed to read /api/atelier/v1/ERP/action/compile?flags=ck
Compile failed: Failed to read /api/atelier/v1/ERP/action/compile?flags=ck
Compile failed: Failed to read /api/atelier/v1/ERP/action/compile?flags=ck

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Question Thiago Zenaro · Jun 12, 2018

Hi community!
Is there any way to create new method keywords?
For example:

ClassMethod TestOne() [ MyKeyword = MyValue ]
{
    // Implementation
}

Another doubt (maybe another topic)
How can I generate new methods at compilation time for the same class?
I tried method generators, but It only gets compiled when I compile for the second time.
I also read this comment but I could not find out how to generate the methods and get them compiled in the first compilation.

For example:

Class util.
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Question Thiago Zenaro · May 25, 2018

Hi everyone

I'm coding a script in order to validade an installation package following the steps:

- Create environment { }
Try{
    - Import classes
    // Do some stuffs
    - Compile Classes
}Catch (ex){
    // oops ...
}
- Destroy environment { }

In some specific cases I will need to terminate the current process and start a new one with some new parameters.
With any code inside my try catch block, whenever I terminate the process I receive a RESJOB and it works perfectly.
When my job is running a compilation ($SYSTEM.OBJ.Compile(.

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Question Alexey Maslov · May 7, 2018

During programmatic classes compilation performed by the code like this:

set status=$system.OBJ.Load(updaterFile,"cruk-d",,.resList)

strange messages appear in console log, e.g.

05/06/18-15:54:12:424 (308512) 0 oops: was expecting crc 0x21e96e85,5a4c8b2c for rtn (Update.Import.1) rbufnum-15523
.
05/06/18-16:17:45:305 (4224) 0 oops: was expecting crc 0x21e96e85,5a4c8b2c for rtn (Update.Import.1) rbufnum-15523
05/06/18-16:22:30:485 (4224) 0 oops: was expecting crc 0x21e96e85,5a4c8b2c for rtn (Update.Import.
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Question Thiago Zenaro · May 3, 2018

Hi community.

I want to create a custom list inheriting %ListOfDatatypes in order to implement some methods like Map, Filter, ForEach, but I have some questions.
Just to mention, I have already read the topic about DeclarativeCOS.

When I define a property like following, caché uses %Collection.ListOfDT or %Collection.ListOfObj, as it's shown in the documentation

Property TestListString As list Of %String;

http://docs.intersystems.com/latest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls?KEY=GOBJ_propcoll#GOBJ_propcoll_def.

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Question sween · Mar 12, 2018

Is there a way to enumerate the compilation status of a package?    

currently after deployment we are doing something like this to validate a successful load and compile of classes:

successful_compilation_count=`grep -a "Compilation finished successfully" output.log | wc -l`
successful_load_count=`grep -a "Load finished successfully" output.log | wc -l`

is there a method to do this where it is a little bit more elegant/dynamic without having to maintain counts for comparison ?

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Question John Murray · Jan 30, 2018

In part of this post in 2016 @Eduard Lebedyuk asked if anyone knew what is meant by an "expanded class", as referred to in the text that appears when we run the ShowQualifiers classmethod of %SYSTEM.OBJ thus:

SAMPLES>DO $system.OBJ.ShowQualifiers()
...
            Name: /checkuptodate
    Description: Skip classes or expanded classes that are up-to-date.

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Question Robert Harris · Nov 13, 2017

"Help me, Obi Wan Kenobi"?

I’ve hit the wall. I’m a one person shop who wants to start developing Cache on a mac using Eclipse/Atelier, after using Studio for the last 5 years. I’ve installed the 1.1 beta plugin, watched 6 or 7 videos from the September conference, tried several times to work through the cheat sheets, only to have connection issues or compilation issues, so at this point, I’m feeling very frustrated. The videos were interesting, but generally didn’t work as tutorials for fundamental programming operations, for me.

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Question Robert Hanna · Oct 23, 2017

I am currently trying to add a condition to a routing rule that uses the %Source property of a routing rule.  Unfortunately I am getting compile errors when I use the "%", and if I get PROPERTY DOES NOT EXIST if I try and use any of field. I have tried referencing the messages as "Message." , "Record.",  "FullRecordMapClassName." , "Document." . Does anyone know how to reference the properties of a record map in a routing rule, or if it is even possible? Thanks!

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Question Jenna Makin · Sep 30, 2017

hi-

Can someone give me an example of how to JOB a class method that requires an array of values to be passed to it by reference.  

This is what I tried, but am getting compile errors because of the .params

job ##class(%SYSTEM.OBJ.FM2Class).All(.params)::5

Any thoughts on how to accomplish this, the simplest way.  I would like to avoid writing all of this to some global and having to write some wrapper to pick it up and then call the class method, which I certainly could do.  but is this the only way to do it?

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Question CJ H · Sep 27, 2017

The definitions of these two compiler keywords looks very similar to me.

Is there any difference between these two keywords ?

When I declare a parent class as Abstract, its child class could be compiled successfully.

However, when I  declare a parent class as NoExtent, some compile errors about storage references get pop up for its child classes.

Thanks.

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Question Rubens Silva · Sep 4, 2017

Hello, I just noticed that the following query is not allowing when using cached queries.

The compiler will accuse the code about missing a closing quote.
Just so you know, if I use this query dynamically it works, so I guess it's related to the code linting.

Query T() As %SQLQuery [ SqlProc ]
{
SELECT TOP 3 JSON_OBJECT('lit':'Employee from','t':%TABLENAME,'name':Name,'num':SSN) FROM Sample.Employee
}

The bold part is what is causing the error.

Version 2017.

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Question Tom Philippi · Aug 14, 2017

I am trying to import the SalesForce Enterprise WSDL in InterSystems Ensemble Studio using the SOAP Add-In. However, when I do so I receive a class dependency loop, Error #5316 during compilation. The WSDL is the standard WSDL provided with SalesForce and works fine in SoapUI. In the SalesForce WSDL it is allowed for an object A to include an object B as an element, while at the same time object B is allowed object A as an element. I think this is what causes the class dependency loop for InterSystems. Does anyone has any suggestion how I can circumvent this error?

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