The official, old(ish) now, source kit is the big green download button you will see here on SourceForge on the project summary page. But, there are packages and installers as well.
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2023-08-27
Hello! I'm new here. I have been trying to download GNUCobol from the official page but what I actually download is a comics reader! I have tried from different servers but no avail. Thanks for your attention!
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The downloads you find here are mostly "source downloads" (tarballs or .zip), which you'd unpack, then compile and install (configure/make/make install) before use.
Starting from 3.2 we also have a "bin" tarball which can be used in GNU/Linux x86_64 environments, unpacked to "opt" and then should work - if your system has a compatible set of the used libraries. (the source version will create a version that is specific to your environment, and also allows to disable features you don't need).
Nowadays (different in 2015), you can use the system package manager to get an up-to-date version of GnuCOBOL which may also contain patches specific to this environment for many operating systems.
Windows is likely one of the small amount of in this area "exotic" systems that doesn't come with a system package manager. You can either compile from source there or use an "external" package manager like choclately or vcpgk or a complete "similar to GNU/Linux" environment like MSYS2 where you have a separate package manager, or use WSL to run GNU/Linux on Win32 (it is kind of an integrated VM with nearly none of the setup you normally need), or use a "normal" VM (only useful if you do this already for other purposes).
Also you have "official ready to use Win32 binaries" (both x86 and x86_64) on https://arnoldtrembley.com/GnuCOBOL.htm.
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Hi,
I would like to try out this cobol. Where do I find the download file and
the instructions for getting started?
The official, old(ish) now, source kit is the big green download button you will see here on SourceForge on the project summary page. But, there are packages and installers as well.
http://opencobol.add1tocobol.com/gnucobol/#how-do-i-install-gnucobol
and
http://opencobol.add1tocobol.com/gnucobol/#are-there-pre-built-gnucobol-packages
and maybe
http://opencobol.add1tocobol.com/gnucobol/#what-is-the-current-version-of-gnucobol
Cheers,
Brian
Hello! I'm new here. I have been trying to download GNUCobol from the official page but what I actually download is a comics reader! I have tried from different servers but no avail. Thanks for your attention!
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Here is the download page, it matters if you are windows Linux Mac ,... which file to download.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnucobol/files/gnucobol/3.2/
The downloads you find here are mostly "source downloads" (tarballs or .zip), which you'd unpack, then compile and install (configure/make/make install) before use.
Starting from 3.2 we also have a "bin" tarball which can be used in GNU/Linux x86_64 environments, unpacked to "opt" and then should work - if your system has a compatible set of the used libraries. (the source version will create a version that is specific to your environment, and also allows to disable features you don't need).
Nowadays (different in 2015), you can use the system package manager to get an up-to-date version of GnuCOBOL which may also contain patches specific to this environment for many operating systems.
Windows is likely one of the small amount of in this area "exotic" systems that doesn't come with a system package manager. You can either compile from source there or use an "external" package manager like choclately or vcpgk or a complete "similar to GNU/Linux" environment like MSYS2 where you have a separate package manager, or use WSL to run GNU/Linux on Win32 (it is kind of an integrated VM with nearly none of the setup you normally need), or use a "normal" VM (only useful if you do this already for other purposes).
Also you have "official ready to use Win32 binaries" (both x86 and x86_64) on https://arnoldtrembley.com/GnuCOBOL.htm.