Hi......
I am planning to practice cobol in winows7.I installed ms cobol in my PC but it s throwing compatability error.And says you need 64bit cobol compiler to practice becoz my computer is 64bit one and cobol compler what am using is 32bit..I searched in google but am not clear what to install and how to practce at home.Please help me how i can practice cobol at home.Am desperatley in need of it....Plz plz help me....
Joined: 18 Jun 2009 Posts: 407 Location: Nashville, TN
Hi vidyakrishna,
I remember using one long time back but dont remember what it was... Am sure you could just 'google' and it might fetch you lot of free COBOL compilers...
Joined: 06 Jun 2008 Posts: 8696 Location: Dubuque, Iowa, USA
Mainframe programs can be compiled and run on OpenCOBOL with very few changes, mostly relating to files. Many mainframe COBOL programs can be compiled under OpenCOBOL with no changes to source code.
Joined: 07 Feb 2009 Posts: 1306 Location: Vilnius, Lithuania
W7-64 runs 32-bit programs without any problems. It will not run 16-bit programs, but you can install VirtualBOX (and install XP in that) to run them. Been there, done that, works like a charm.
Joined: 09 Mar 2011 Posts: 7309 Location: Inside the Matrix
OpenCobol is at SourceForge. There will be people there more than willing to help. Google, click, read, think, read, experiment, think, read. Can't get it going, ask there.
Joined: 10 May 2007 Posts: 2455 Location: Hampshire, UK
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There's also a free-to-use version of CobolIT available.
Not any more - just sources for building it yourself and they are all *nix - no Windoze. Either that or they are doing a good job of hiding the stuff!
As for most of the other offerings they are generally not compilers but convert the COBOL source to C then run it through the C compiler so you have to have a C compiler (that works).