Nix flake to build GnuCOBOL and GnuCOBOL Contrib on Linux & MacOS. This flake fetches source from Github mirrors 1, 2 of the upstream SourceForge SVN repositories.
{
description = "Your nix flake with GnuCOBOL. Hack the planet!";
inputs = {
nixpkgs.url = "github:nixos/nixpkgs/nixos-unstable";
flake-utils.url = "github:numtide/flake-utils";
gnucobol= {
url = "github:rupurt/gnucobol-nix";
inputs.nixpkgs.follows = "nixpkgs";
};
};
outputs = {
flake-utils,
gnucobol,
nixpkgs,
...
}: let
systems = ["x86_64-linux" "aarch64-linux" "x86_64-darwin" "aarch64-darwin"];
outputs = flake-utils.lib.eachSystem systems (system: let
pkgs = import nixpkgs {
inherit system;
overlays = [
gnucobol.overlay
];
};
in {
# nix fmt
formatter = pkgs.alejandra;
# nix develop -c $SHELL
devShells.default = pkgs.mkShell {
name = "default dev console";
packages = with pkgs; [
gnucobol-pkgs.gnucobol.bin
gnucobol-pkgs.esqloc
];
};
});
in
outputs;
}An open-source COBOL compiler
> cobc --help
GnuCOBOL compiler for most COBOL dialects with lots of extensions
Usage: cobc [options]... file...
Options:
-h, --help display this help and exit
-V, --version display compiler version information and exit
-dumpversion display compiler version and exit
-i, --info display compiler information (build/environment)
and exit
...COBOL driver program for GnuCOBOL modules
> cobcrun --help
GnuCOBOL module loader
Usage: cobcrun [options] PROGRAM [parameter ...]
or: cobcrun options
Options:
-h, --help display this help and exit
-V, --version display version information for cobcrun + runtime and exit
-dumpversion display runtime version and exit
-i, --info display runtime information (build/environment)
-v, --verbose display extended output with --info
-c <file>, --config=<file> set runtime configuration from <file>
-r, --runtime-config display current runtime configuration
(value and origin for all settings)
-M <module>, --module=<module> set entry point module name and/or load path
where -M module prepends any directory to the
dynamic link loader library search path
and any basename to the module preload list
(COB_LIBRARY_PATH and/or COB_PRELOAD)
Report bugs to: bug-gnucobol@gnu.org
or (preferably) use the issue tracker via the home page.
GnuCOBOL home page: <https://www.gnu.org/software/gnucobol/>
General help using GNU software: <https://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>Shell script which simplifies configuring applications against a particular version
of the GnuCOBOL library.
> cob-config
This is a console script which simplifies configuring applications
against a particular version of the GnuCOBOL library.
Usage: cob-config [options]
echos configuration variables of libcob (GnuCOBOL).
Options:
--prefix echos the package-prefix of libcob (GnuCOBOL)
--exec-prefix echos the executable-prefix of libcob (GnuCOBOL)
--cflags echos the C compiler flags needed to compile with libcob (GnuCOBOL)
--libs echos the libraries needed to link with libcob (GnuCOBOL)
--version echos the release+patchdate version of libcob (GnuCOBOL)
--bindir echos the directory containing libcob (GnuCOBOL) programs
--datarootdir echos the data root for libcob (GnuCOBOL)
--datadir echos the directory containing libcob (GnuCOBOL) data
--includedir echos the directory containing libcob (GnuCOBOL) header files
--libdir echos the directory containing libcob (GnuCOBOL) libraries
--mandir echos the directory containing libcob (GnuCOBOL) manpages
--help prints this messageA sort tool that implements a subset of the Micro Focus MFSORT utility
> gcsort --help
________________________________________________________________________________________
gcsort help
gcsort is a utility to sort, merge, copy and join records in a file into a
specified order in GnuCOBOL environment.
________________________________________________________________________________________
Syntax case insensitive
Return code : 0 (ok) - 4 (warning) - 16 (error)
________________________________________________________________________________________
Usage with file parameters : gcsort <options> take filename
Usage from command line : gcsort <options> <control statements>
________________________________________________________________________________________
gcsort options
-fsign=[ASCII|EBCDIC] define display sign representation
-fcolseq=[NATIVE|ASCII|EBCDIC] collating sequence to use
-febcdic-table=<cconv-table>/<file> EBCDIC/ASCII translation table
-mt=<num> number of threads to be used | -mt dynamical number of threads to be used
________________________________________________________________________________________
gcsort control statements
Notations: '{name}' = parameters , '|' = Alternative format of control statement
========================================================================================
Section for SORT, MERGE and COPY control statements
========================================================================================
SORT | MERGE | COPY FIELDS Control statement for Sort, Merge, Copy file(s)
________________________________________________________________________________________
USE Declare input file(s)
GIVE Declare output file
[ SUM FIELDS ] Sum fields for same record key, or eliminate duplicate keys)
[ RECORD ] Record control statement
[ INCLUDE ] Select input records that respect include condition(s)
[ OMIT ] Omit input records that respect omit condition(s)
[ INREC ] Reformat input record Before sort, merge or copy operation
[ OUTREC ] Reformat input record After sort, merge or copy operation
[ OUTFIL ] Create one or more output files for sort,merge or copy operation
[ OPTION ] Specifies option for control statements
________________________________________________________________________________________
gcsort
SORT | MERGE | COPY
FIELDS({Pos},{Len},{FormatType},{Order}, ...) |
FIELDS({Pos},{Len},{Order}, ...),FORMAT={FormatType} |
FIELDS=COPY
...> docker build . -t gnucobol:latest
#0 building with "default" instance using docker driver
#1 [internal] load build definition from Dockerfile
#1 transferring dockerfile: 3.25kB done
#1 DONE 0.1s
...> nix develop -c $SHELL