GnuCobol 3.2 - 2026-07-17

[Anonymous]

Help,

GnuCobol 3.2 install is in error.

I attach the report. What did I miss?

In 2024 the same gnucobol.zip worked.

Thanks Luc

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[Michael Del Solio]

Probably you have now a newer version of Linux with a newer version of gcc which is more strict in checking pointer types an other things.

You could try to add a parameter to the compiler to use an older C-standard, and set some other compiler flags in addition:

make distclean 2>/dev/null || true

./configure \
    CC="gcc -std=gnu17" \
    CFLAGS="-O2 -Wno-error=incompatible-pointer-types -Wno-error=implicit-function-declaration" \
    --with-xml2 \
    --with-json

make

In the log file there is a message that flex is missing_

checking for flex... no

Maybe this helps with all packages needed:

sudo apt install \
    build-essential flex bison \
    libgmp-dev libncurses-dev \
    libdb-dev libxml2-dev \
    libjson-c-dev

[Chuck Haatvedt]

this code has been fixed in the current 3.3-dev code