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GnuCOBOL (formerly OpenCOBOL)
DESCRIPTION
GnuCOBOL is a free software COBOL compiler. cobc translates COBOL source code to native executable using intermediate C, designated C compiler and linker.OpenCOBOL 1.1 became GNU Cobol 1.1 in 2013.
Now spelled GnuCOBOL, 2.2 is the latest release. Version 3 is available for testing.
A GnuCOBOL Programmer's Guide, by Gary Cutler and Vincent Coen, can be found at https://open-cobol.sourceforge.io, along with lots of other documentation.
OpenCOBOL was written by Keisuke Nishida and Roger While, from 2001 to 2012.
GnuCOBOL is also authored by Simon Sobisch, Ron Norman, Edward Hart, Sergey Kashyrin, Dave Pitts and Brian Tiffin. Many others listed in the FAQ.
Copyright 2001-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the FSF; either version 3, or (at your option) any later version.
The libcob run time support source tree is licensed LGPL.
Features
- A nicely complete implementation of COBOL with nearly seamless C integration
- Over 9740 NIST COBOL 85 test suite tests passed, over 1000 internal checks
- Dialect support for COBOL85, X/Open, COBOL2002, COBOL2014, MicroFocus, IBM, MVS, ACUCOBOL-GT, RM/COBOL, BS2000
- REPORT SECTION, SCREEN SECTION, FUNCTION-ID support
- Almost full support of the COBOL 2014 Compiler Directing Facility feature set
- EXEC SQL preprocessors available for PostgreSQL, Firebird, ODBC, DB2
- ASCII, EBCDIC, little endian, big endian. A build published for z/OS OMVS/USS
- Compiler built with GNU Autotools and GCC, also successfully builds with LLVM clang, VisualStudio or others
- Direct access to almost all C libraries, and even more with the C++ base
- Multiple screen libraries available including Java (AWT/SWING) and GTK+ based
- Code integrating Ada, Guile, Lua, Rexx, Javascript, Python, and others, published
- CGI capable and desktop ready
- Compiler and runtime messages translated; English, Spanish, Portuguese, Swedish, Dutch, German, French, more to come
Audience
Developers
User interface
Web-based, Console/Terminal, Command-line, GTK+, Tk
Programming Language
COBOL, C
Database Environment
Berkeley/Sleepycat/Gdbm (DBM), Other file-based DBMS
This is an application that can also be fetched from https://sourceforge.net/projects/open-cobol/. It has been hosted in OnWorks in order to be run online in an easiest way from one of our free Operative Systems.
