A Collection of COBOL Compilers for Windows Users
October, 2007 Edition Copyright Arnold Kochman. Other copyrights also apply, in particular the General Public License.
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This is a collection of COBOL Compilers primarily for use on Windows systems. I have included some documentation, where possible. In addition, packages
contain documentation at varying levels of thoroughness, which you will
see when you expand the archives in which they are stored. Naturally, I
cannot give assurances about the suitability of any package for a
particular purpose.
You will need one of the commonly available unzip utilities, such as PKUNZIP or WinZip or other program, depending on the type of archive.
Here are the compilers that are included:
COBOL Compilers for Windows Users
COBOL12 - A 16-bit COBOL compiler that runs under DOS or Windows. The
compiler was originally based on Ansi74, but has evolved. It does not
include some features such as SORT and STRING, but it has many
extensions. Indexed sequential files are supported by the standard
COBOL statements for these files, and by the provision of the BTRIEVE
indexed file system. Two modules are included to provide the program
interface to the screen. The Format Module provides the ability to
display a Windows-like screen appearance. Ascii strings are included
in the program to define the screens and the module employs the
graphical facility of mode 12H to format the screen. The Screen Module
provides a comprehensive input-output facility for the program,
including mouse actions, option buttons, function keys, and Alt
keys. The package includes a compiler, a linker and an IDE front end,
and a reference manual.
OpenCOBOL - A COBOL compiler that implements a substantial part of the
COBOL 85 and COBOL 2002 standards, as well as many popular
extensions. OpenCOBOL translates COBOL into C and compiles the
translated code using GCC. You can build your COBOL programs on
various platforms, including GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, and Microsoft
32-bit Windows systems. Windows users can use the GCC compiler from
the MinGW package, which is included separately on this CD. The
OpenCOBOL compiler is licensed under GNU General Public License. The
run-time library is licensed under GNU Lesser General Public License.
Fujitsu COBOL Version 3 for Students Fujitsu promises that this
compiler will run on Windows 95/98 or Windows NT 4.0; in fact, it
seems to run on later versions of Windows as well. In Fujitsu COBOL
Version 3 for students both ODBC connectivity and optimization are
disabled. It complies with ANSI Standard COBOL X3.23 1985,
ISO-1989-1985 specifications, and is compatibile with OS/VS COBOL, VS
COBOL II and Micro Focus COBOL. It has an embedded SQL preprocessor
and an embedded COBOL report writer. It is equipped with an IDE, a
full function COBOL GUI Source Code Debugger, and a Micro Focus
Conversion Utility. Fujitsu says they will provide "getting started
with Fujitsu COBOL" support for students using Fujitsu COBOL Version
3, but not "standard telephone or email support" for this product.
Tiny COBOL Compiler - A COBOL compiler designed to implement the COBOL
85 standard, in reference to the ISO 1985, ISO 1989-1 (Intrinsic
Function Module), ANSI X3.23-1985, ANSI X3.23a-1989 (Intrinsic
Function Module), X/Open XPG3 (COBOL programming languages
extensions). It has, in addition, the ability to read/write from
standard input/output/error, read command line parameters, read
environment variables, set a file name at runtime, and return a
program exit code to the invoking process. It generates Intel x84
assembly language code, and works together with the GNU assembler to
generate binaries. The compiler is licensed under the GNU General
Public License. The run time libraries are licensed under the GNU
Lesser General Public License.
COBOL650 - An old MSDOS COBOL compiler that comes with some
documentation. It conforms with the ANSI COBOL-74 standard although it
does not implement the sort/merge feature. It generates OBJ files, so
to produce executable programs it will be necessary to use a
linker. Two different linkers are included on the CD.
MinGW - A native Win32 port of the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC), with
import libraries and header files for building native Windows
applications; includes extensions to the MSVC runtime to support C99
functionality. This package is included for use with some of the COBOL
compilers that compile into "C" or assembler as a first compilation
phase.
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