gnubol: Win32 GNU COBOL compiler (was:Anyone actually working on Cobol)

[David Essex <dessex@arvotek.net>]

At 02:34 PM 11/11/99, "Fred Neale" <fneale@tss.com.au> wrote:

>Tim Josling wrote on 11/11/99:
>
>     "This means that development would be restricted to the 'gnu
>     COBOL' environment which will probably only run in Unix, or in
>     the cygwin32 environment in Win32. Is everyone happy with that?"

Development of the compiler under cygwin32 may be possible, but not
desirable. Not unless you enjoy rebooting your machine frequently, even for
some trivial errors. 


>Personally speaking, I would be more than happy with a product which would
run
>on Linux and Win32.

That is do able. The mingw32(1) project,  has developed a native Win32 GCC
compiler. This compiler does not require the U*nix emulation layer(cygwin32
runtime DLL). Not to run the compiler, or to run the binaries it produces.

It comes with most if not all utilities (such as make, etc.), and even has
a Win32 resource compiler. As a matter of fact I used it to create a Win32
GUI application, just for fun. And yes it is faster than cygwin32.

It is being developed under Linux to run on Win32, and produce Win32
binaries. So a native port of GNU COBOL to Win32 should be possible, using
a similar method.  


David

1) Minimalist Win32 Project(s)

   Toolchain for x86-Win32 targets (GCC 2.95)
   http://www.xraylith.wisc.edu/~khan/software/gnu-Win32/   
   http://www.xraylith.wisc.edu/~khan/software/gnu-Win32/gcc.html

   GNU mingw32 tools Homepage (GCC 2.8.1)
   http://agnes.dida.physik.uni-essen.de/~janjaap/mingw32/


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