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A.Creupelandt
A.Creupelandt

Reputation: 271

installing gnucobol on windows10

I have a problem with installing gnucobol 2.2. I get an error message telling me there's no c compiler found. I run windows10 on my laptop 

$ ./configure  
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c  
checking whether build environment is sane... yes  
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /usr/bin/mkdir -p  
checking for gawk... gawk  
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... no  
checking whether make supports nested variables... no  
checking whether CFLAGS can be modified... yes  
checking for gcc... no  
checking for xlc... no  
checking for cc... no  
configure: error: in `/cygdrive/c/gnucobol-2.2-rc':  
configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH  
See `config.log' for more details

can someone please help me with this problem? thank you :)

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1957

Answers (2)

Simon Sobisch
Simon Sobisch

Reputation: 7297

Cygwin has its own package manager: setup-x86_64.exe.

This is a GUI application where you'd enable the contents of the base-essentials meta package, at least "gcc" and "make".
To build GnuCOBOL from source you'll need to add additional packages, see GnuCOBOL's DEPENDENCIES file.

IF you'd want to install without the GUI, then as an alternative to apt-get you could use cyg-get. Instead of "sudo", which doesn't exist you may need to start Cygwin as Administrator, if you didn't do a user-install.

Apart from this question: as this question shows that you aren't using Cygwin for development in general and likely just want to use it on GnuCOBOL: have a look at the official MinGW packages, this is just a download, extract and double click to "set_env.cmd", then you're ready to go.

Upvotes: 1

SomeoneElse
SomeoneElse

Reputation: 479

Whilst not directly related to the "./configure" question, a general "easy" answer to "installing gnucobol on windows10" might be:

  1. Use a package manager such as chocolatey

https://community.chocolatey.org/packages/gnucobol

This doesn't work at the moment due to an issue with the packaging, but generally speaking is likely the easiest "just install" option on native Windows

  1. Install WSL and then "apt install gnucobol" in there.

WSL is "Windows Subsystem for Linux". See https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install . The drawback of this approach is that if you're using gnucobol to create objects, libraries or executables (as opposed to just C code) then you'll get Linux objects, libraries or executables, which likely isn't what you want on Windows. However, for just getting access to the environment, it's likely the fastest way there.

Upvotes: 3

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