OpenCOBOL, as GNU Cobol, accepted as a GNU project.

This project's SourceForge.net CVS repository can be checked out through anonymous (pserver) CVS with the following instruction set. The module you wish to check out must be specified as the modulename. When prompted for a password for anonymous, simply press the Enter key. To determine the names of the modules created by this project, you may examine their CVS repository via the provided web-based CVS repository viewer.

cvs -d:pserver:This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.:/cvsroot/open-cobol login
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.:/cvsroot/open-cobol co -P modulename

Information about accessing this CVS repository may be found in our document titled, CVS (Version Control for Source Code) .

Updates from within the module's directory do not need the -d parameter.

http://opencobol.add1tocobol.com/gnucobol
http://www.opencobol.org/

GnuCOBOL 2.0 Download

GNU Cobol is a free and open-source COBOL compiler, which translates
COBOL programs to C code and compiles it using a native C compiler.

Although many have participated, most development thanks go to

Roger While
Keisuke Nishida

Features

• A nicely complete implementation of COBOL with nearly seamless C integration
• Over 9700 NIST COBOL 85 test suite tests passed
• Direct access to almost all C libraries, and a branched C++ version exists
• Compiler built with GNU Autotools, also successfully builds with LLVM clang
• CGI capable and desktop ready, GTK+ screens have been demonstrated
• Code integrating Ada, Guile, Lua, Rexx, Javascript, Python, and others published
• EXEC SQL preprocessors available for PostgreSQL, Firebird, ODBC, DB2
• REPORT SECTION, SCREEN SECTION, FUNCTION-ID support

The wiki has pages for

• [COBOL acknowledgement] from the original COBOL specification, shown above
• [Features], an old list
• [GnuCOBOL ToDone], a project work-in-progress page
• [GnuCOBOL project members], a page generated by SourceForge
• [Gary Cutler Files], an index to some of Gary's guides, tutorials and samples
• [Install Guide], an old, somewhat out of date, original
• [Tasks], an old page from opencobol.org, also out of date
• [User Manual], the original info manual pages
• [For Maintainers], some of the project contribution guidelines and rules