OpenCOBOL- open-source COBOL compiler

Posted by Mike on Tuesday, March 23, 2010

OpenCOBOL is an open-source COBOL compiler. OpenCOBOL implements a substantial part of the COBOL 85 and COBOL 2002 standards, as well as many extensions of the existent COBOL compilers.

OpenCOBOL translates COBOL into C and compiles the translated code using the native C compiler. You can build your COBOL programs on various platforms, including Unix/Linux, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows.

CLICK HERE to visit the OpenCOBOL website.

Note: link provided for the sake of knowledge. I have no relationship with the folks at OpenCOBOL.

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2 Responses to “OpenCOBOL- open-source COBOL compiler”

1. Jung-Lung Shao says:

   Tuesday, May 4, 2010 at 11:55 AM

   To whom this may concern,

   My friend Mike and I tried all the possible combinations we can to link COBOL main program and subprogram. It always shows an error of libcob no such file or directory.

   We did get COBOL calling C program to work.

   Please let us know how to link the COBOL to COBOL external program.

   Thanks a lot.

   Sincerely,

   Jung-Lung Shao (Ron)
2. Jung-Lung Shao says:

   Tuesday, May 4, 2010 at 3:44 PM

   In OpenCOBOL.
   The program-ID has to be exactly the right case (upper case or lower case) to match the program name in the directly. And then it will find the external program.

   It is different from mainframe. (In mainframe it would work on both uppercase and lowercase).

   No issue at this moment

   Thanks

   Sincerely,

   Jung-Lung Shao(Ron)