Hi everyone. First off I apologize if this post is in the wrong place, or silly in nature. I would really like to set up GnuCobol on a https://www.linode.com machine.
I have tried to do this myself - as reading the help files it seems this should be reasonably straightforward - however I keep getting stuck as working in a terminal is not my forte. I have created a Debian node/instance, and tried to use the web console & the package manager, but my commands seem to be incorrect. I also get stuck trying to download the source to the machine and compiling it. I dont think the native c compiler comes on those machines.
These may be more questions for a linux person, but I was curious if anyone has done this (built GnuCobol on a service like Linode). Or has any advise. Or if someone knew how to do this, perhaps we could offline the converstaion and work together on it. Am more than happy to compensate.
I am an OK programmer but very inexperienced with servers and such
Thanks, and sorry for the nooby questions!
John
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If you have a Debian setup and terminal (or some configuration file where you can setup it) and sudo access sudo apt install gnucobol and you should be good - but likely getting an old version of GnuCOBOL.
If you want a current one / install from source then you hopefully do have sudo rights and install the dependencies sudo apt install gcc make libgmp-dev libncurses-dev libdb-dev libxml2-dev libjson-c-dev then get the source package on that machine, build and install it tar -xf gnucobol-XYZ.tar.xz && cd gnucobol* && configure && make && make install. This would also allow to only include what you want/need [possibly no XML2, no extended screenio, no ORGANIZATION INDEXED, ...].
If you need personal support for this or other topics then you can contact me by my @gnu.org address (or PM via SF), but if you don't want to spent money for that, then the discussion board is commonly the best and a very useful option.
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Thanks Simon!! :-D I'll try that today, and see how I get on. I may well email you too, as there are a number of things I would like to try. Thank you, am very grateful!
If you would like to refer to this comment somewhere else in this project, copy and paste the following link:
Hi everyone. First off I apologize if this post is in the wrong place, or silly in nature. I would really like to set up GnuCobol on a https://www.linode.com machine.
I have tried to do this myself - as reading the help files it seems this should be reasonably straightforward - however I keep getting stuck as working in a terminal is not my forte. I have created a Debian node/instance, and tried to use the web console & the package manager, but my commands seem to be incorrect. I also get stuck trying to download the source to the machine and compiling it. I dont think the native c compiler comes on those machines.
These may be more questions for a linux person, but I was curious if anyone has done this (built GnuCobol on a service like Linode). Or has any advise. Or if someone knew how to do this, perhaps we could offline the converstaion and work together on it. Am more than happy to compensate.
I am an OK programmer but very inexperienced with servers and such
Thanks, and sorry for the nooby questions!
John
If you have a Debian setup and terminal (or some configuration file where you can setup it) and sudo access
sudo apt install gnucoboland you should be good - but likely getting an old version of GnuCOBOL.If you want a current one / install from source then you hopefully do have sudo rights and install the dependencies
sudo apt install gcc make libgmp-dev libncurses-dev libdb-dev libxml2-dev libjson-c-devthen get the source package on that machine, build and install ittar -xf gnucobol-XYZ.tar.xz && cd gnucobol* && configure && make && make install. This would also allow to only include what you want/need [possibly no XML2, no extended screenio, no ORGANIZATION INDEXED, ...].... or possibly just install a matching deb file from the internet, for example from https://cobolworx.com/pages/dpkg.html
If you need personal support for this or other topics then you can contact me by my @gnu.org address (or PM via SF), but if you don't want to spent money for that, then the discussion board is commonly the best and a very useful option.
Thanks Simon!! :-D I'll try that today, and see how I get on. I may well email you too, as there are a number of things I would like to try. Thank you, am very grateful!