Re: [open-cobol-list] OC on Win XP

[David Essex]

John Culleton wrote:
> On Saturday 30 January 2010 11:34:07 John Culleton wrote:
>
> > I have OC on my Linux partition. I want to set it up on
> > my Win XP partition for validation on that platform. I know there is cygwin
> > and mingw as potential sub hosts.  Which in your opinion is more suitable,
> > easier install etc. for an OC installation
>
> The mingw.org site has been pirated. It now sells real estate. So cygwin is 
> the only current choice. 

Have you looked at the VC version of OC [1].

In any case, the MinGW site is hosted on SF [2], so only the DSN 
(mingw.org) is not working. You can still download the files you require.

Some hints on building OC:

You can download VB-ISAM (version 2), and PDCurses (version 2.4), MinGW 
binaries at the TC download area [3]. The GMP libraries can be found 
here [4].

To configure and build OC on MinGW you will need to install MSYS.

Anyway, hope this helps.

1) OpenCOBOL 1.1 binaries - using VC
http://www.kiska.net/opencobol/

2) MinGW on SF
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/

3) TC on SF
http://sourceforge.net/projects/tiny-cobol/files/

4) GMP for Windows Platform
http://cs.nyu.edu/exact/core/gmp/