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win32 F/OSS development - Cobol
COBOL is old. Really, really old. It's also pretty common to find big gops of it still in use. While I'd never recommend taking it up unless you have to, like the flesh eating bacteria, it seems to never go away.
Install
Head over to the TinyCobol page.
Grab the main 'Win32 MinGW binary' of the TinyCobol package.
You'll also need the MinGW binary of Berklely DB (on the same page), MinGW (install detailed here.) and PDCurses (also on the MinGW page).
If you haven't already, install MinGW and PDCurses (see here ).
Unzip the Berkley BD file and move the libdb.h file to the \include sub-directory of your MinGW install.
Then move the libdb.a file to the \lib sub-dir of MinGW.
Lastly run the TinyCobol installer.
Documentation
- Introduction to COBOL and TinyCOBOL: a nice starting point.
- Mvs Help for the Mainframe Programmer: Reference manuals including Cobol
- Univ. of Limerick: a great Cobol tutorial, example code and exercises.
- Wayne State: class outline from Wayne State