On 3/14/2022 10:22 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
On Mon, 14 Mar 2022 at 18:12, Ralf Quint <freedos...@gmail.com> wrote:
[2] Is there a version of GNU COBOL for DOS? I can't find any mention
of this on Google.
This is the real issue at hand here, and the reason why the OP should
rather contact the GNU COBOL
folks about installing this on DOS (any DOS).
Yes, I agree.
The main problem is that you will need the whole GCC tool chain for this to
work...
I did not know that GNU COBOL compiled to C when I answered, but yes,
I agree, ultimately this is the
problem.
But a shorter answer, missing the core problem but still answering the
question, is:
No, GNU COBOL does not run on DOS.
The compiler does not run on DOS, the tools the compiler needs don't
run on DOS, and they don't target
DOS either.
What this means is:
Well, there used to be a couple of open source/free COBOL projects that
kind of got merged into GNU COBOL years ago, when the original authors
abandoned it. Open COBOL is one of them, there was at least one more,
though the name back then escapes me right now. And at least one of
those projects, working the same way, by using a C compiler as a
backend, was able to use DOS based compilers ((Open)Watcom was one of
them IIRC), before they all went "the way of the devil".
Thus it would simply an issue that should be taken up with those GNU
COBOL maintainers, and not a FreeDOS specific one...
Ralf
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