[open-cobol-list] OpenCOBOL MinGW (32-bit) edition

[David Essex]

If anyone is interested, binaries for OpenCOBOL MinGW (32-bit) are
available for download [1].

This version was build using VB-ISAM as the ISAM file option.

Prerequisites:
A version of MinGW installed on your system.

File listing:
opencobol-1.1-20090206-ALL.mingw.zip
- Compiler, Run-Time and module load and run utility.
- PDcurses library version version 2.4.
- ISAM library VB-ISAM version 2.0.
- GMP library version 4.2.1.

opencobol-1.1-20090206-DEPS.mingw.zip
- PDdcurses library version version 2.4.
- ISAM library VB-ISAM version 2.0.
- GMP library version 4.2.1.

opencobol-1.1-20090206.mingw.exe
- Compiler, Run-Time and module load and run utility in setup
  program format.

opencobol-1.1-20090206.mingw.zip
- Compiler, Run-Time and module load and run utility.

opencobol-1.1-20090206.zip
- Source code, build instructions and Inno setup script.

Installation using setup or zip files:
Install compiler and support libraries (as required) in the
MinGW directory. The default path is 'mingw-dir/local'
(ex: C:\mingw\local).

Add the BIN path (ex: C:\mingw\local\bin) to the PATH environment variable.

NT/Win2K/XP/Vista/Win7 users (CMD):
The environment variables are set in the registry on a global or per
user basis. Use the properties sheet to set the environment variables
values.

Example (W2K user level):
Left-click 'My Computer', select 'properties',  select Advanced on the
System properties tab, select 'Environment Variables' option.
Change the 'PATH' System variables and append the OC binary path.

Example: PATH=...;C:\mingw\local\bin

Testing the compiler:
Open CMD window and test OC (cobc --version or cobc --help).
Try test compile and run from CMD window using a COBOL source
Examples:
  exe: cobc -x -v test01.cob
       test01.exe
  dll: cobc -m -v test02.cob -o test02.dll
       cobcrun.exe test02


1) COBOL-utils project - OpenCOBOL
http://cobol.sourceforge.net/files.html
http://sourceforge.net/projects/cobol/files/open-cobol/