[Knezzen]

Trying to learn COBOL for the hell of it and thought I’d do it in IRIX.

Is there any COBOL compilers available for IRIX?

[gijoe77]

I don't recall ever coming across any COBOL compilers, but there is open-COBOL/gnuCOBOL https://open-cobol.sourceforge.io/faq/index.html

I just did a test compile of open-COBOL 1.0 and it compiled fine

[Knezzen]

Great! Thanks!

[gijoe77]

i just played a bit with 2.2 and 3.0, they both give me SIGBUS errors, I'm not really good enough to really troubleshoot that, but hopefully 1.0 is enough for you

[Knezzen]

1.0 is just fine. I just want to play around with it. What did you compile it with btw? MIPSPro?

[gijoe77]

I used gcc 3.4.6

[praetor]

Just came here to say....

[uridium]

Fujitsu did one in the early days. One of SAMS Teach yourself COBOL ones had single user version Solaris/HP-UX (9/10.x), Wintendo, DOS, DG and an IRIX one. Later books dropped DG, IRIX and possibly the HP-UX 9.x.

It was for 5.3 only and ECOFF because I had issues running it on my Octane when I upgraded from the Indy in the 90's. It also had some issues with the runtime lib, but it wasn't hard to work out.

I used it and the DEC VMS one on 6.2 learn COBOL'85 stuff as a student back when Jesus played full-back for Jeruselem.

[Raion]

Holy thread necromancy Batman!

Just kidding, had no freaking idea COBOL was a thing on IRIX at all.

[uridium]

I've not seen it elsewhere .. but Fujitsu still makes NetCOBOL so it's "evolved". I guess at the time they saw as the ICL/Fujitsu SPARC & Solaris systems the SGI competition and hedged their bets. I've found the HP-UX v7, v8, v9 and v10 versions and Solaris. Think the IRIX one was for 4.x and 5.x. I've found one of the runtimes, but not the compiler yet. Still have about 80+ unchecked drives I need to one day dump and catalog.

Performance wise, it was actually really quick. Definitely faster than the Windows versions for NT4/2000 and Win3.1. I do recall that like the Windows versions, it did support CICS.