GnuCOBOL dependencies for Windows

https://www.gnu.org/software/gnucobol/

Note: this directory contains files and documentation for building with different compilers than GCC on Windows.

GCC based compilers

GCC based compilers (MinGW/MSYS2/Cygwin) often come with their related package managers which will allow to install the necessary dependencies or even GnuCOBOL itself.

Examples:

Packages that are not available with those package managers (primarily old MinGW) may be built from source.

For all these: see the common dependency README.

VisualStudio

In the rare circumstances where a GCC Windows build cannot be used, you may either build the dependencies on your own or use the pre-built ones used and packaged by the CI/CD.

To ease the build of dependencies you may want to do this with vcpkg. For example:

set PLATFORM=x86
set PLATFORM=x64
set "VCPKGS=mpir:%PLATFORM%-windows pdcurses:%PLATFORM%-windows berkeleydb:%PLATFORM%-windows libxml2:%PLATFORM%-windows cjson:%PLATFORM%-windows json-c:%PLATFORM%-windows"
vcpkg install %VCPKGS%

This is also done in CI/CD with an additional

vcpkg.exe export %VCPKGS% --raw
7z.exe a -r -mx=9 "dependencies-%PLATFORM%.7z" vcpkg-export

The results of these commands can be downloaded for convenience from:

• VS2019 x64
• VS2019 x86
• VS2017 x64
• VS2017 x86
• VS2015 x64
• VS2015 x86