cobol with cygwin and mingw compiler

[alien with special powers]

Hi all-

I am trying to get with the people that are using the mingw tools.

If you stay within the cygwin environment with gcc you are fine but i have no idea how to deploy the app because of the dir and file permissions.

I am trying to compile gnucobol with mingw.

I used the following variables:

CC, CXX, LD_LIBRARY_PATH, and of course set the paths to the binaries in windows.

I cd into the source directory and execute mkdir build.

Then, I cd into the build dir.

Then run this:
$ ../configure --prefix=/home/user/cobol-3.1-rc1 --host=x86_64-w64-mingw32

after I run make my outputs look like this:

configure: GnuCOBOL Configuration:
configure:  CC                x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc.exe
configure:  CFLAGS            -O2 -pipe -finline-functions -fsigned-char -Wall -Wwrite-strings -Wmissing-prototypes -Wno-format-y2k -U_FORTIFY_SOURCE
configure:  LDFLAGS
configure:  PROGRAMS_LIBS         -lintl
configure:  COB_CC            x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc.exe
configure:  COB_CFLAGS        -I/home/user/cobol-3.1-rc1/include -Wno-unused -fsigned-char -Wno-pointer-sign -pipe
configure:  COB_LDFLAGS
configure:  COB_LIBS          -L${exec_prefix}/lib -lcob -lm
configure:  COB_CONFIG_DIR    ${datarootdir}/gnucobol/config
configure:  COB_COPY_DIR      ${datarootdir}/gnucobol/copy
configure:  COB_LIBRARY_PATH  ${exec_prefix}/lib/gnucobol
configure:  COB_OBJECT_EXT    o
configure:  COB_MODULE_EXT    dll
configure:  COB_EXE_EXT       .exe
configure:  COB_SHARED_OPT    -shared
configure:  COB_PIC_FLAGS     -DDLL_EXPORT -DPIC
configure:  COB_EXPORT_DYN    -Wl,--export-all-symbols -Wl,--enable-auto-import -Wl,--enable-auto-image-base
configure:  COB_STRIP_CMD     x86_64-w64-mingw32-strip --strip-unneeded
configure:  Dynamic loading:                             System
configure:  Use gettext for international messages:      yes
configure:  Use fcntl for file locking:                  no
configure:  Use math multiple precision library:         gmp
configure:  Use curses library for screen I/O:           ncursesw
configure:  Use Berkeley DB for ISAM I/O:                yes
configure:  Use libxml2 for XML I/O:                     no
configure:  Use cJSON for JSON I/O:                      no

The the make section where I get the error looks like this:

make[2]: Entering directory '/home/user/gnucobol-3.1-rc1_win/build/extras'
("../pre-inst-env" cobc.exe -m -Wall -O2 -o "CBL_OC_DUMP.dll" "../../extras/CBL_OC_DUMP.cob" || \
 "../pre-inst-env" cobc.exe -m -Wall     -o "CBL_OC_DUMP.dll" "../../extras/CBL_OC_DUMP.cob" || \
 "../pre-inst-env" cobc.exe -m -Wall -vv -o "CBL_OC_DUMP.dll" "../../extras/CBL_OC_DUMP.cob")
configuration error:
default.conf: No such file or directory
configuration error:
default.conf: No such file or directory
cobc (GnuCOBOL) 3.1-rc1.0
Built     Oct 25 2020 03:01:01  Packaged  Jul 01 2020 00:39:30 UTC
C version (MinGW) "9.2.0"
loading standard configuration file 'default.conf'
configuration error:
default.conf: No such file or directory
make[2]: *** [Makefile:608: CBL_OC_DUMP.dll] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/user/gnucobol-3.1-rc1_win/build/extras'
make[1]: *** [Makefile:627: all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/user/gnucobol-3.1-rc1_win/build'
make: *** [Makefile:535: all] Error 2

Just put a default.conf in the directory whenever it complains.

When I tested the helloworld.exe outside of the cygwin environment it complained so I gave it the default.conf in the .exe directory.

Thanks,
roboloki

[alien with special powers]

Hi all-

I just got agar to run in addition to cobol with cygwin and mingw. I thought it would be more useful to leave an agar summary.

You have to follow Agar instructions under docs on their website.

It would be helpful to set CC, CXX, MINGWROOT (You could set that in control panel too).

Also, you need all the usual MINGW paths set in windows.

WARNING: i fell asleep at the wheel and accepted the agar prefix on the libagar site. Only do that if you don't care if agar is not contained in its own place. There is no make uninstall.

In environment variablles-
For path, I used :

C:\cygwin\usr\x86_64-w64-mingw32\sys-root\mingw\bin
C:\cygwin\usr\x86_64-w64-mingw32\bin
C:\cygwin\bin

for LD_LBRARY_PATH, i USED:

C:\cygwin\usr\x86_64-w64-mingw32\sys-root\mingw\lib

./configure --host=x86_64-w64-mingw32 --prefix=$MINGWROOT --enable-debug --with-{freetype,sdl,png,jpeg,gl}=$MINGWROOT --without-{fontconfig,gettext,iconv} --enable-static

Make sure you close out of (in my case mintty) shell and restart the shell for the path variables you set in windows control panel to take effect.

 x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc -o hello  -IC:/cygwin/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/agar `$MINGWROOT/bin/agar-config --cflags` ./hello.c  `$MINGWROOT/bin/agar-config --libs`

thanks,
roboloki