Installing RainCode COBOL

[Bruce Axtens]

I've asked them already but there's no response as yet, so

Has anyone had any success installing Raincode's free COBOL compiler for
.NET. Every time I try to install it, it says it can't find a file
(which it helpfully doesn't say the name of) and then rolls back the
install. The log in %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Temp is frustratingly empty.

Bruce/bugmagnet

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[Kerry Liles]

Thanks for posting a reference to Raincode... I had never heard of them.
Mind you, I haven't been trolling the Net for legacy solutions lately
because I have been busy *maintaining* a legacy system... :)

Their approach seems very interesting - it would have been a lot of work
to create even "legacy" compilers. As a ASM370 programmer since 1969 I
was intrigued by their web page(s). If you get their cobol compiler
running I would love to know how that goes. I notice their ASM370 page
seems to be a copy/paste of much of the Cobol page so I wonder if all
the parts of the product are actually available or they are waiting for
a big migration attempt to come with $ to fund the 'final' development
phase (also know as the actual conversion product development from
vapourware)

Best of luck to them in any case.

[Arnold Trembley]

Does Raincode COBOL require Microsoft Visual Studio?

I've looked at the website, but I'm not sure if VS is optional or required.


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[Bruce Axtens]

> Does Raincode COBOL require Microsoft Visual Studio?
>
> I've looked at the website, but I'm not sure if VS is optional or required.
>
>

The impression I get, from the installer, that a "minimal" setting does
not require Visual Studio. And the .NET environment can get by with
command line line compilers.

[Arnold Trembley]

Were you able to install Raincode COBOL?

Downloading requires registration, but the compiler is free and
apparently has no license fees. They also support EXEC SQL and EXEC
CICS, VSAM, PL/1, and HLASM.



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[Arne Vajhøj]

On 3/15/2018 2:19 AM, Bruce Axtens wrote:
>> Does Raincode COBOL require Microsoft Visual Studio?
>>
>> I've looked at the website, but I'm not sure if VS is optional or
>> required.
>
> The impression I get, from the installer, that a "minimal" setting does
> not require Visual Studio. And the .NET environment can get by with
> command line line compilers.

C:\Work\cob>cobrc :EXE helloworld.cob
1:helloworld.cob

C:\Work\cob>helloworld
Hello world !

Arne

[Bruce Axtens]

On 3/16/2018 10:33 AM, Arnold Trembley wrote:

> Were you able to install Raincode COBOL?

So far, no. The installer keeps hitting a snag and doing a rollback. I'm
in correspondence with the developers about that.

[Bruce Axtens]

On 3/16/2018 10:33 AM, Arnold Trembley wrote:

> Downloading requires registration, but the compiler is free and
> apparently has no license fees.  They also support EXEC SQL and EXEC
> CICS, VSAM, PL/1, and HLASM.

I have encouraged them to make themselves known on comp.lang.cobol

[docd...@panix.com]

In article <p8jav8$ubf$2...@dont-email.me>,

Bruce Axtens <sne...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>On 3/16/2018 10:33 AM, Arnold Trembley wrote:
>
>> Downloading requires registration, but the compiler is free and

>> apparently has no license fees.?? They also support EXEC SQL and EXEC

>> CICS, VSAM, PL/1, and HLASM.
>
>I have encouraged them to make themselves known on comp.lang.cobol

Certainly a route to renown.

DD

[pete dashwood]

LOL!

More like "notoriety" I think... :-)

Pete.

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[Bruce Axtens]

Ok, have got it installed. Had to update VS2017.

Just having a look at some of the videos about .NET integration at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9hAxMk78zQ

[Arnold Trembley]

So does that mean you need to install Microsoft Visual Studio in order
to get .NET?

Are there Installation instructions included with Raincode COBOL, or do
they need some clarification?

Kind regards,


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[Bruce Axtens]

On 3/31/2018 7:18 AM, Arnold Trembley wrote:
> So does that mean you need to install Microsoft Visual Studio in order
> to get .NET?
>

I have formal ties to these sites:
<http://hopl.info/> and
<https://www.facebook.com/HistoryOfProgrammingLanguages/notifications/>
and I'm always hunting for new languages. So a while back I stumbled
over <https://www.raincode.com/products/cobol/>.

AFAICT it's Windows only. It does have command line tools. It also works
well in Visual Studio. Beyond that, I don't know much as I've only just
succeeded in installing it.

[Arnold Trembley]

How did the installation problem get resolved? Did you have to acquire
a missing file from somewhere, or was there a change to the installation
procedure? I'm interested in trying Raincode out.

Thanks!


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[Bruce Axtens]

On 4/1/2018 10:26 AM, Arnold Trembley wrote:
> How did the installation problem get resolved?  Did you have to acquire
> a missing file from somewhere, or was there a change to the installation
> procedure?  I'm interested in trying Raincode out.

Having downloaded it, the makers wrote to me asking how I was getting
on. I wrote back and said, "dismally." At the same time I logged into
the raincode site and raised a bug report. Eventually they got back to
me and had me run the msiexec tool with the relevant parameters to
generate a local logfile which I dutifully sent to a provided address.

Their suggested fix was to install the latest update for VS2017
Community and then retry with their existing installer.

Having installed the VS2017 update, the installer worked as advertised.

Bruce

[jo...@wexfordpress.com]

I use Gnu Cobol on Linux. Is that possible in your app?

John Culleton

[Bruce Axtens]

On 4/8/2018 12:34 AM, jo...@wexfordpress.com wrote:
> I use Gnu Cobol on Linux. Is that possible in your app?

I also use GnuCOBOL. I was just interested in another free compiler. I
have since been able to install RainCode COBOL.