A procedure for generating an executable overall control program such as a measurement, control, regulation and/or calibration is illustrated and described for controlling a control system having at least one electronic processor unit, whereby multiple functional model components of one of the functional models describing the functionality of the overall control program are compiled in data code, the data elements used in the functional model components are listed at least partially in one of the various data element sets of the functional model. References between data elements in the data element set and those functional model components of the functional model in which the data elements are used are registered, and these references are saved as additional reference information. Such data elements in the data element sets, which are assigned to multiple functional model components are grouped as common data elements in at least one data element group, and at least a part of the data elements in the data element set is compiled to data code. The data code for common data elements is generated from the data set independently of the functional model, and the function code and the data code are completely merged and compiled into the executable overall control program using the reference information consistently.