i have a little COBOL project that i would like to port to GnuCOBOL.
There is a package of GnuCOBOL 3.2 with GixSQL 1.20b and MinGW which i downloaded and it installed fine on my Windows10 box.
But there are some twists i have encountered:
1) there is no config file for Fujitsu NetCOBOL... although i would think i could tweak one of the existing
2) i need EXEC SQL... and GixSQL seems a little finky.
Any ideas?
Peter
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correct, we still wait for someone to provide a configuration file :-)
Note: this does mean checking all the options versus the documentation.
What do you mean with "finky"? And which RDBMS does your SQL code target?
Side note: you may want to just go with the default options or otherwise with -std=xopen or -std=mf-strict, instead of starting by doing the complete definition now. If you find options that don't match Fuji, you can still use the matching -foption (just the name defined in the conf file) to override some options. You possibly also want to compile with --debug to get all runtime checks, or at least with -fec=data -fec=size to get most of the checks that are enabled by default on Fuji.
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As to the RDBMS, if it is IBM DB2 or ORACLE DB, I think that both of them ship with a COBOL precompiler which should work fine with GNUCOBOL. I have successfully used this approach with the community version of IBM DB2.
HOWEVER due to a bug in GNUCOBOL, this does REQUIRE STATIC calls to DB2 API's.
If you are interested I have some Windows command files I used for compiling / linking GNUCOBOL with embedded SQL.
Chuck Haatvedt
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Side Note: I had IBM DB2 running (with Chucks help) on Ubuntu 22.04 and Gnucobol and worked great. Then I went to Ubuntu 24.04 and it killed my system, so i installed Pop!OS and it does not support DB2. It does support other databases... So just a note, some little known versions of Linux may have issues...
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Greetings!
i have a little COBOL project that i would like to port to GnuCOBOL.
There is a package of GnuCOBOL 3.2 with GixSQL 1.20b and MinGW which i downloaded and it installed fine on my Windows10 box.
But there are some twists i have encountered:
1) there is no config file for Fujitsu NetCOBOL... although i would think i could tweak one of the existing
2) i need EXEC SQL... and GixSQL seems a little finky.
Any ideas?
Peter
correct, we still wait for someone to provide a configuration file :-)
Note: this does mean checking all the options versus the documentation.
What do you mean with "finky"? And which RDBMS does your SQL code target?
Side note: you may want to just go with the default options or otherwise with
-std=xopenor-std=mf-strict, instead of starting by doing the complete definition now. If you find options that don't match Fuji, you can still use the matching-foption(just the name defined in the conf file) to override some options. You possibly also want to compile with--debugto get all runtime checks, or at least with-fec=data -fec=sizeto get most of the checks that are enabled by default on Fuji.As to the RDBMS, if it is IBM DB2 or ORACLE DB, I think that both of them ship with a COBOL precompiler which should work fine with GNUCOBOL. I have successfully used this approach with the community version of IBM DB2.
HOWEVER due to a bug in GNUCOBOL, this does REQUIRE STATIC calls to DB2 API's.
If you are interested I have some Windows command files I used for compiling / linking GNUCOBOL with embedded SQL.
Side Note: I had IBM DB2 running (with Chucks help) on Ubuntu 22.04 and Gnucobol and worked great. Then I went to Ubuntu 24.04 and it killed my system, so i installed Pop!OS and it does not support DB2. It does support other databases... So just a note, some little known versions of Linux may have issues...
My testing of DB2 was on Windows 10..