OpenCobolIDE

Develop code structures based on GnuCobol

Aug 15, 2026

Rating:

4.1 on 28 votes

Category:

Development Tools › IDE

Developer:

Colin Duquesnoy

License:

Open source

Total downloads:

13,288 (8 last week)

Operating system:

Windows XP/7/8/10/11

Latest version:

4.7.6

Description

Complete development projects based on the GnuCobol code compiled with companion programs. Create new designs or upload the existing ones, perform basic modifications and highlight syntax, complete unfinished code, detect and fix various errors. Structure the data for management.

You can download OpenCobolIDE 4.7.6 from our software library for free. Commonly, this program's installer has the following filename: OpenCobolIDE.exe. Our built-in antivirus scanned this download and rated it as virus free.

This free PC program was developed to work on Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10 or Windows 11 and is compatible with 32-bit systems. The software lies within Development Tools, more precisely IDE. The most popular versions of the software 4.7, 4.6 and 4.5. This free program was originally designed by Colin Duquesnoy. The file size of the latest downloadable setup file is 57.6 MB.

From the developer:

OpenCobolIDE is a simple cobol IDE based on the GnuCobol compiler. This program has a native cobol syntax highlighting, and code completion features. Also, it has a navigable tree view of division, sections, paragraphs etc., which are fully synchronized with the code folding panel.

You may want to check out more software, such as PHPEdit, Raize Components or LispWorks, which might be similar to OpenCobolIDE.

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Comments

Dave

Last year

Hi. I downloaded and installed OpenCobolIDE 4.7.6 on my Windows 10 computer. I wrote and compiled a very simple Cobol program which displays something, reads the user entered data and displays what was entered. The program compiles ok from my source directory and a .exe file is created in the /bin subdirectory from my source directory. However, when I ran the .exe I get an error message "The code execution cannot proceed because libcob-4.dll was not found. Reinstalling the program may fix this problem.". I downloaded (from DLLMe.com) & copied libcob-4.dll to the bin directory where the .exe file is located and ran the .exe again, this time it was asking for 3 more dll's, I downloaded & copied the next 3 DLL's and got more similar messages. I use an old version of Cobol in a DOS window on XP, but I'd like to have a version of Cobol that I can easily do screen IO on Windows 10. Can anybody help me?. Thank you.

John Watson

6 years ago

Hello. Since October 2018 I have been using the OpenCobolIDE environment from a download on 27/10/2018 of the 4.7.6_setup file. My understanding then was that the Cobol version was not the latest from GnuCobol. I notice that the documentation is noting version 3, so has there been an upgrade of the Cobol compiler since 2018. One other querry, as I have recently been trying the screen section facility but I keep getting a message that no redirection is allowed. What does that mean?

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