Re: [Tiny-cobol-users] installation procedure for COBOL

[David E. <de...@us...>]

manju arumugam wrote:
 > am new to this group, and i am new to this
 > language, can i know about Installation procedure
 > for Install cobol in linux platform.

Just download the source and build TC as follows.

./configure
make
make install (as su)

Set the envirioment variables as in the following example.

TCOB_OPTIONS_PATH=/usr/local/share/htcobol
TCOB_RTCONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/share/htcobol

Then compile any test programs found in the test.code directory, as in
the following example.

Using a make file:
make

Using the command line (Fixed source format):
htcobol -v -x -F sample-program.cob


BTW, if you download version 0.63, you may run into the follwing problem.

There is a macro 'define' problem with flex versions greater that 2.5.4.

This will cause TC to fail to compile with the following error message.

  > ...
  > gcc ... -c scan.c
  > scan.c:1062: parse error before `YY_PROTO'
  > ...

This is caused by the following macro 'define', as found in scan.l:61.

#define YY_DECL int yylex2 YY_PROTO((void))

The following code will fix the problem for all version (I hope) of flex.

#ifdef YY_USE_PROTOS
#define YY_DECL int yylex2 YY_PROTO((void))
#else
#define YY_PROTO(proto) (void)
#define YY_DECL int yylex2(void)
#endif

This is not an issue with the CVS version.

Hope this helps.