I installed gnucobol from Arnold Trembley's site following the instructions in https://bigdanzblog.wordpress.com/2020/05/05/installing-gnucobol-on-windows/ including setting the environment variable. This appears to have been successfull.
When I try to execute it from CMD I am unable as CMD defaults to C:\Users\Administrator> (which can not be changed) adding cobc -V to this gives an error. So I used the run (Windows key & R) entering the full path C:\gnuCOBOL\bin\cobc.exe -v. This results in a brief flash of a black screen which disappears immediately. What have I done wrong or not done?
Windows 10 up to date on Asus laptop
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The black screen is because the command-line program runs and when it exits the command window exits, too.
I haven't looked at that blog but the easiest way to setup is:
unpack one of Arnold's builds (or the similar nightly build packages)
when you want to use GnuCOBOL open the contained set_env.cmd, works both from cmd.exe and from [WIN]+[R] (in the later case a cmd.exe window stays open)
done
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I installed gnucobol from Arnold Trembley's site following the instructions in https://bigdanzblog.wordpress.com/2020/05/05/installing-gnucobol-on-windows/ including setting the environment variable. This appears to have been successfull.
When I try to execute it from CMD I am unable as CMD defaults to C:\Users\Administrator> (which can not be changed) adding cobc -V to this gives an error. So I used the run (Windows key & R) entering the full path C:\gnuCOBOL\bin\cobc.exe -v. This results in a brief flash of a black screen which disappears immediately. What have I done wrong or not done?
Windows 10 up to date on Asus laptop
The black screen is because the command-line program runs and when it exits the command window exits, too.
I haven't looked at that blog but the easiest way to setup is: