Re: [open-cobol-list] OC on Win XP

[John Culleton]

On Sunday 31 January 2010 17:25:20 John Culleton wrote:
> On Sunday 31 January 2010 02:03:48 David Essex wrote:
> > John Culleton wrote:
> > > On Saturday 30 January 2010 11:34:07 John Culleton wrote:
> > >> I have OC on my Linux partition. I want to set it up on
> > >> my Win XP partition for validation on that platform. I know there is
> > >> cygwin and mingw as potential sub hosts.  Which in your opinion is
> > >> more suitable, easier install etc. for an OC installation
> > >
> > > The mingw.org site has been pirated. It now sells real estate. So
> > > cygwin is the only current choice.
> >
> > Have you looked at the VC version of OC [1].
> >
> > In any case, the MinGW site is hosted on SF [2], so only the DSN
> > (mingw.org) is not working. You can still download the files you require.
> >
> > Some hints on building OC:
> >
> > You can download VB-ISAM (version 2), and PDCurses (version 2.4), MinGW
> > binaries at the TC download area [3]. The GMP libraries can be found
> > here [4].
> >
> > To configure and build OC on MinGW you will need to install MSYS.
> >
> > Anyway, hope this helps.
> >
> > 1) OpenCOBOL 1.1 binaries - using VC
> > http://www.kiska.net/opencobol/
> >
> > 2) MinGW on SF
> > http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/
> > http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/
> >
> > 3) TC on SF
> > http://sourceforge.net/projects/tiny-cobol/files/
> >
> > 4) GMP for Windows Platform
> > http://cs.nyu.edu/exact/core/gmp/
>
> OK I opened door number 1 and downloaded/ installed the precompiled
> "native" version provided by Sergey. But first I downloaded/installed XPS2
> PSDK to get Microsoft's c compiler. I discovered the following interesting
> things: 1. cobc needs default.conf and default.conf is described as being
> in c:\OpenCobol\config\
> ergo Sergey's product needs to be unzipped at the c:\ level.
> 2. Windows can't find cobc.exe at that location either. So either cobc
> needs to be fully qualified
> c:\OpenCobol\cobc
> or else the compilation needs to happen in the \Open\Cobol directory.
> I tried both ways.
> 3. Since this is a native Windows app I am uncertain how parameters are
> handled. is it
> cobc -x progname.cbl
> or
> cobc /x progname.cbl
> or something else?
> 4. No matter how I twist and turn this error message comes forth:
> cl is not a program or a bat file.
>
> I thought it sounded too easy.
>
> I have also downloaded Bill Klein's screed on installing OC on windows. 
> I'll try that on Monday.

Well I am finally up and running, using cygwin and following the instructions 
of Bill Klein. But the bad news is that cygwin+OC runs very slowly.  So at 
some point I may need to revisit a native compile. 
-- 
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