Re: Problem during installation of gnucobol (next)

[Simon Sobisch]

Hi Philippe and welcome to GnuCOBOL,

Am 14.12.2019 um 18:28 schrieb Philippe Delcroix:
> I've got this problem while running the configure command.
> I am installing gnucobol-3.0-rc1 in  cygwin.

Two notes before coming back to the question.

1 You may consider using 3.1-dev instead as it is compatible with
3.0-rc1 and 3.0 never got to a release state.

You can always get the most recent dev/early-dev tarballs from
https://sourceforge.net/projects/open-cobol/files/gnu-cobol/nightly_snapshots/

2 If you just want to use GnuCOBOL on win32 there are other options than
building it from source with cygwin (Which is still reasonable if you
want to adjust GnuCOBOL to your needs). If this is the case you can get
instructions how to build and pre-built binaries from
https://www.arnoldtrembley.com/GnuCOBOL.htm


Am 14.12.2019 um 19:02 schrieb Philippe Delcroix:
> I did find some information about the error message, but I don't
> understand how to fix it.
> Here is my log file.


The error message says it does not find the GMP headers, something only
needed for "developing" with GMP, not for "only using it". As you build
GnuCOBOL from source you "develop".
You therefore would go to cygwin setup and install the appropriate
package, which is likely called gmp-dev or gmp-devel.

Note: there are more packages needed and some optional, you may check
the README for the list of those.

Simon