COBOL Development Environment
- Take the simple way. Install homebrew with
/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
. - Now download and build GnuCOBOL with
brew install gnu-cobol
. - Download your Eclipse IDE https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/eclipse-packages/
- Download CODE repository from https://github.com/bastie/CODE/archive/master.zip and extract this.
- Select
Install New Software
(Help Menu), add theCODE UpdateSite
directory from extracted CODE repository (deselect catagory) accept license and test the new COBOL Eclipse features.
- Download sources from GnuCOBOL with
wget https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/open-cobol/gnu-cobol/3.0/gnucobol-3.0-rc1.tar.xz
- 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
- Now build GnuCOBOL with
./configure && make && make check && sudo make install
. - Download your Eclipse IDE https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/eclipse-packages/
- Download CODE repository from https://github.com/bastie/CODE/archive/master.zip and extract this.
- Select
Install New Software
(Help Menu), add theCODE UpdateSite
directory from extracted CODE repository (deselect catagory) accept license and test the new COBOL Eclipse features.
- Use ´https://github.com/bastie/CODE/raw/master/CODE UpdateSite´ as Update Site URL
(Deselect category)
- Download CODE repository from https://github.com/bastie/CODE/archive/master.zip and extract this.
- Select
Install New Software
(Help Menu), add theCODE UpdateSite
directory from extracted CODE