GnuCOBOL Guides

GnuCOBOL Guides

Welcome to some of the works by Gary Cutler, Vincent Coen, Brian Tiffin, Bill Klein, László Erdős, Arnold Trembley, Edward Hart, Ron Norman, James K. Lowden and Simon Sobisch

GnuCOBOL is a COBOL compiler, a GNU free software package.

Compiler authors include

• Keisuke Nishida, Roger While, Simon Sobisch, Ron Norman
• Sergey Kashyrin, Edward Hart, Dave Pitts, James K. Lowden
• Joe Robbins, Philipp Böhme, Vince Coen, Luke Smith, Brian Tiffin

GnuCOBOL Documentation

Start Here with Gary's Guide, Updated by Vincent Coen

• GnuCOBOL 3.2 Programmers Guide (US Letter).pdf
• GnuCOBOL 3.2 Quick Reference (US Letter).pdf
• GnuCOBOL 3.2 Sample Programs (US Letter).pdf

• GnuCOBOL 3.2 Programmers Guide (A4).pdf
• GnuCOBOL 3.2 Quick Reference (A4).pdf
• GnuCOBOL 3.2 Sample Programs (A4).pdf

In GNU Info form.
View with info -f gnucobpg.info once saved locally.

• gnucobpg.info
• gnucobqr.info
• gnucobsp.info

In HTML form

• gnucobpg.html
• gnucobqr.html
• gnucobsp.html

Brian's FAQ and HOWTO

• GnuCOBOL FAQ (HTML)
• GnuCOBOL FAQ (PDF 3.3Mb)

Edward Hart's GnuCOBOL grammar documentation

(work in progress)

• GnuCOBOL grammar PDF
• GnuCOBOL Grammar sources (svn)

Ron Norman's GnuCOBOL C-Interaction documentation

(work in progress)

• PDF format (svn)
• OpenDocument-Text format (svn)

internal and external API documentation

generated by Doxygen, GnuCOBOL 2.0, January 6th, 2014

• GnuCOBOL API documentation, HTML
• GnuCOBOL API documentation, PDF (6MB)

More Guides

Add Arnold's GnuCOBOL MinGW Build guide for Windows along with pre-built "ready-to-use" packages

• GnuCOBOL-3.1.1-MinGW-Build-Guide-V1.pdf
• GnuCOBOL-3.1.1-MinGW-Build-Guide-V1.odt (ODT source)
• Arnold's GnuCOBOL Resources (with prebuilts)

And Bill's getting to grips with Windows, given POSIX based OpenCOBOL

• OC_GettingStarted_Windows.pdf

Note: older files can be found in the Archive