This chapter explains how you can develop your own COBOL application using the libraries and the tools supplied by LIXA project.
LIXA project ships some example COBOL programs you can find in
directory
/opt/lixa/share/doc/lixa-X.Y.Z/examples/cobol/ after
software installation (see Chapter 2, Installation).
This chapter is focused on the COBOL programming language. The C programming language is addressed by another dedicated chapter.
LIXA supports only GnuCOBOL (formerly OpenCOBOL). GnuCOBOL can be retrieved from SourceForge.net or can be installed using the standard packages available for your Linux distribution. The support for GnuCOBOL requires at least version 1.1 that's available inside Ubuntu 14.04 and other distributions.
It cannot be excluded that LIXA may run using a different COBOL environment, but at this time the LIXA project does not have a development and test environment for something else than GnuCOBOL.