Michael Del Solio

Thank you very much. This game makes fun. I'm happy I won the level but I used 3 lives for that :-) I tested it on OpenSuSE Tumbleweed and for this I installed raylib with sudo zypper install raylib-devel On this configuration the arrow keys did not work because this call returns a strange value "14081" instead of "1" when the key is pressed at this line: call "IsKeyDown" using by value 263 returning key-left end-call I did change the definition for the key fields from: 77 key-left usage binary-short...

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...

James, thank you very much. By “works on Windows,” I mean that it would be desirable for me if gcobol could actually be used to develop classic applications for personal computers running Windows, and to build them directly for Windows. I am thinking of applications like those that were created in the past with Micro Focus COBOL, Microsoft COBOL, or RM/COBOL for DOS and Windows. Recently, I needed a new dishwasher, and the small local dealer — just a two-man business — was running a SCREEN I/O application...

Thanks a lot for the tip. I really like COBOL. I also find the code much more readable, clearer, and more elegant. For me, that's another reason to choose COBOL, in addition to its speed :-)

The article sounds very interesting. But the paywall is preventing the exciting results from being revealed for now. I'd be interested to know who the winner is and which system and COBOL compiler were used in this test :-)

I think the reason is that dealer.txt has many NUL-Bytes before LF (linefeed) at the end of each line. GnuCOBOL can handle this with setting COB_LS_VALIDATE to 0 (off). But with this setting enabled it is more strict checking the lines of the input file. I have replaced all NUL-Bytes in dealer.txt with spaces and with this new file dealer-clean.txt it works with or without COB_LS_VALIDATE enabled. dealer-clean.txt works also with Rocket Cobol (Micro Focus) with the same code.

Eugenio, I was happy to implement your suggestion. Toggle-B (Beep) is removed now and Toggle-S (Sound) is new on board instead in attached file GC99TETRISN_music_toggle_S.COB :-)

I think it's great that there's now another FOSS COBOL compiler besides GnuCOBOL. I'd like to have gcobol available natively on Windows as well. That's why I'm interested in building gcobol under MSYS2 as an UCRT (native) package. But: I tried to build GCC 16.1.0 with the new gcobol frontend enabled for the MSYS2 UCRT64 / MinGW-w64 target but without success for now. I spent some hours on this topic and want to share my experience: The PKGBUILD changes themselves are not enough yet, because gcobol...