Re: [Bug-GnuCOBOL] Error installing GNU Cobol

[Simon Sobisch]

Hi turellg and welcome to GnuCOBOL,

as configure shown on the attached image complains about GnuCOBOL not
finding a working gmp.h on cygwin I'd assume the GMP components (likely
the "dev" part) is not installed correctly.

Note: If you don't have a very specific reason to use cygwin (which
would mainly be reasonable if you have other POSIX programs you already
run there or want to change the GnuCOBOL sources) I'd suggest to use
either MinGW or (for a much better experience in nearly all areas) Bash
on Windows using Debian or Ubuntu.

If you just want to "install and use" GnuCOBOL on your machine I'd
suggest to use the binaries provided by Arnold Trembley who provides the
official Windows MinGW builds [1].

If you want to go on with the cygwin route: make sure you've installed
the appropriate cygwin packages according to the README with the cygwin
setup.exe.

Last note: While 2.2 is still the last release-version the newer 3.0-rc1
(never got a real release) is considered to be much better and stable in
most areas. The same can be said for the 3.1 dev, you can get a
ready-to-build tarball from the CI builds.

Simon

[1] https://www.arnoldtrembley.com/GnuCOBOL.htm
[2]
https://sourceforge.net/p/open-cobol/discussion/cobol/thread/7dc2941f/?page=3&limit=25#aaef


Am 15.08.2019 um 19:43 schrieb address@hidden:
> Good day,
>
> I got this error installing GNU Cobol in my computer (Windows 10-Pro).
>
> Could you help me on this?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Regards.