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CODE

COBOL Development Environment

FAQ

How to install

Install GnuCOBOL

MacOS
  1. Take the simple way. Install homebrew with /usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)".
  2. Now download and build GnuCOBOL with brew install gnu-cobol.
  3. Download your Eclipse IDE https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/eclipse-packages/
  4. Download CODE repository from https://github.com/bastie/CODE/archive/master.zip and extract this.
  5. Select Install New Software (Help Menu), add the CODE UpdateSite directory from extracted CODE repository (deselect catagory) accept license and test the new COBOL Eclipse features.
Linux (from source)
  1. Download sources from GnuCOBOL with wget https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/open-cobol/gnu-cobol/3.0/gnucobol-3.0-rc1.tar.xz
  2. Install Berkeley DB, ncurses and GMP for developing; for example rpm -Uvh gmp-devel-6.0.0-15.el7.x86_64.rpm libdb-devel-5.3.21-24.el7.x86_64.rpm ncurses-devel-5.9-14.20130511.el7_4.x86_64.rpm
  3. Now build GnuCOBOL with ./configure && make && make check && sudo make install.
  4. Download your Eclipse IDE https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/eclipse-packages/
  5. Download CODE repository from https://github.com/bastie/CODE/archive/master.zip and extract this.
  6. Select Install New Software (Help Menu), add the CODE UpdateSite directory from extracted CODE repository (deselect catagory) accept license and test the new COBOL Eclipse features.

Install CODE

Online
  1. Use ´https://github.com/bastie/CODE/raw/master/CODE UpdateSite´ as Update Site URL (Deselect category) If you do not see this image, please take your glasses!
Offline
  1. Download CODE repository from https://github.com/bastie/CODE/archive/master.zip and extract this.
  2. Select Install New Software (Help Menu), add the CODE UpdateSite directory from extracted CODE