Cobol Software For Windows 7
Download & Install¶. Here you'll find all the necessary explanations for installing OpenCobolIDE. There is a windows installer available here: to install GnuCOBOL compiler, e.g. Using homebrew: brew install gnu-cobol. Run the OpenCobolIDE app.
My GnuCOBOL Links GnuCOBOL/OpenCOBOL Downloads, Binaries, and Links Arnold Trembley This page was last updated Saturday, January 13 th, 2018. GnuCOBOL (formerly OpenCOBOL) is a free COBOL compiler. The GnuCOBOL 'cobc' program translates COBOL source code to into C code, and then uses a local or embedded C compiler to translate the intermediate C code into executable programs. This page includes free downloads of ready-to-install copies of GnuCOBOL for Windows. These versions were built with 32-bit MinGW (Minimalist Gnu for Windows).
There are three versions of 32-bit MinGW GnuCOBOL 2.2 (06SEP2017) for Windows 7, Windows 8.1, and Windows 10. They should also run on Windows XP and Windows Vista.
One is built with Berkeley Database for indexed sequential file support (ISAM), one with no ISAM support, and one with VBISAM 2.01 for ISAM support. Some users may find the Oracle Berkeley Database license too restrictive for redistribution of COBOL executable programs. All three versions may downloaded below. For anyone who would like to build GnuCOBOL 2.2 (or other versions of GnuCOBOL/OpenCOBOL) using MinGW (Minimalist Gnu for Windows), there is a draft build guide available for download in both PDF format and LibreOffice ODT format (which can be edited with MS Word or OpenOffice Writer). 32-bit MinGW is a minimal unix-type environment for Windows that allows you to build the GnuCOBOL compiler using GCC (the Gnu Compiler Collection). The generated GnuCOBOL compiler runs in a normal Windows CMD.EXE session, similar to the old MS-DOS window, and has a version of MinGW GCC embedded in it. As of 13JAN2018 I have added a manual on Using MinGW GnuCOBOL, including how to install GnuCOBOL (and OCIDE), how to compile programs, and how to prepare GnuCOBOL applications to be installed on a target Windows PC without installing the compiler.
Cobol Software For Windows 7 32 Bit
There is also a link to Colin Duquesnoy's OpenCobolIDE, which is a free GUI Interactive Development Environment (IDE) for GnuCOBOL written in Python for, Windows, and Mac OSX. The Windows installer includes GnuCOBOL 2.0 Release Candidate 2 in addition to the IDE.
This is probably the quickest way to install a working COBOL compiler for Windows. You can also change the Preferences in 'OpenCOBOLIDE' to use an alternate version of GnuCOBOL.
GnuCOBOL/OpenCOBOL links. Here are the newest MinGW GnuCOBOL 2.2 download files built with MinGW Gnu Compiler Collection 6.3.0. And packaged as 7-Zip self-extracting files. As of 24OCT2017, they have all been updated with the GnuCOBOL 2.2 manual. The '.exe' file extensions were renamed to '.7z' to comply with my web host's safety rules. These files are smaller than previous binary downloads after removing unneeded elements and adding improved 7-Zip compression. They can also be extracted using the open source 7-Zip alternative to Windows built-in ZIP file support.
Rename the extension from.7z to.exe to use them as 7-Zip self-extracting archives. Building GnuCOBOL with VBISAM is challenging. The best version of VBISAM I have found is 'VBISAM 2.01' but it is not hosted where it can be easily found.
It is based on VBISAM 2.0 by Roger While from the VBISAM SourceForge project. But it has been patched by Sergey Kashyrin, Mario Matos, and an anonymous poster in the GnuCOBOL SourgeForge discussion forums. So I am hosting it here in two different files.
64-bit MinGW GnuCOBOL 2.2 for Windows With many thanks to Simon Sobisch, the GnuCOBOL project leader, you can now build a MinGW 64-bit version of GnuCOBOL 2.2 for Windows, which includes gmplib, ncurses, and Berkeley DataBase. You can download the binary which was compressed with 7-Zip and rename the file extension from '7z' to 'exe'. Then you can run it as a self-installed archive. Open a cmd.exe window in the install folder, and run 'bin cobenv -v' to set the environment variables. There is also a link for the 64-bit build guide in LibreOffice ODT format and in PDF format. It should also be possible to use this 64-bit GnuCOBOL compiler with OpenCobolIDE 4.7.6.
Older GnuCOBOL/OpenCOBOL Downloads Gary Cutler's OpenCOBOL 1.1 (06FEB2009) is available for download below as a packaged installer for Windows XP/Vista/7/8. Some time ago I built the GnuCOBOL 1.1 compiler (20JAN2014) using source code available from the GnuCOBOL/OpenCOBOL project on Sourceforge.net. The compiler has been tested with the GnuCOBOL version of the NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) COBOL85 test suite and passes 9,011 out of 9,129 test cases. Please see the link below for a Windows installer for GnuCOBOL 1.1. There are three versions of MinGW GnuCOBOL 2.0 Release Candidate 2 (06NOV2016) for Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows 8.1, and Windows 10.
One is built with Berkeley Database for indexed sequential file support (ISAM), one with no ISAM support, and with VBISAM 2.0 for ISAM support. Some people may find the Berkeley Database Oracle license too restrictive for redistribution of COBOL executable programs. All three versions may downloaded below. The newest versions are compressed into smaller download files. Please feel free to email me at the following address. E-mail: Click to return to my home page.