Eclipse requirements
- The setup file installs
Visual COBOL and the 64-bit Eclipse 4.6.0.
After the installation, you can install
Visual COBOL as a plug-in into other Eclipse installations available on the same machine. The supported versions are 4.4, and 4.5 for
both the 32-bit and the 64-bit Eclipse. See
Installing
Visual COBOL into other instances of Eclipse.
- Visual COBOL supports the 64-bit Eclipse IDE as default and requires a 64-bit Java installation.
- Visual COBOL supports both the 32-bit and the 64-bit Eclipse. You can use the 64-bit Eclipse to create both 32-bit and 64-bit applications.
Note: If you are installing
Visual COBOL into Eclipse 4.5, or 4.6, you must install the Eclipse Target Management plugins into the Eclipse IDE for Java EE Developers
package (32-bit):
- Click
in Eclipse and add a new repository for the location
http://download.eclipse.org/tm/updates/4.0.
- Expand
RSE 3.8 Main Features, check
RSE Terminals UI (Deprecated) and complete the installation of the plugin.
Other software requirements
Before installing this product, you must have the following software installed on your computer:
- The unzip utility is required by the setup file.
- The pax archiving utility is required by the setup file. Pax is distributed with most UNIX/Linux systems but, if it is missing,
you must install it separately. To verify pax is installed, run
pax --help or
pax --version at the command line.
- Required libraries - the 32-bit libraries listed below are required on both 32-bit and on 64-bit Operating Systems for this
product to install and work correctly.
If installing on a 64-bit OS, the 32-bit libraries are not installed by default and must be installed before you start the
installation.
| Library
|
32-bit Library Name
|
64-bit Library Name
|
Platform
|
| s390
|
SUSE 11
1
|
SUSE 12
|
Red Hat 6.x
|
Red Hat 7
|
| glibc
|
glibc-*.i686
|
glibc-*.x86_64
|
glibc-*.s390
|
|
|
X
|
X
|
| libgcc
|
libgcc-*.i686
|
libgcc-*.x86_64
|
libgcc-*.s390
|
|
|
X
|
X
|
| libstdc++
|
libstdc++-*.i686
|
libstdc++-*.x86_64
|
libstdc++-*.s390
|
|
|
X
|
X
|
| glibc-locale
|
glibc-locale-32bit
|
glibc-locale-2
|
N/A
|
|
X
|
|
|
| gtk2
|
N/A
|
libgtk-2_0-0-2
|
N/A
|
|
X
|
|
|
| gtk2
|
N/A
|
gtk2-tools-2
|
N/A
|
|
X
|
|
|
| gtk2
|
N/A
|
libXcomposite1-0
|
N/A
|
|
X
|
|
|
| gtk2
|
N/A
|
libgdk_pixbuf-2_0-0-2
|
N/A
|
|
X
|
|
|
| gtk2
|
N/A
|
gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders-2
|
N/A
|
|
X
|
|
|
| gtk2
|
N/A
|
libjasper1-1
|
N/A
|
|
X
|
|
|
| gtk2
|
N/A
|
gtk2-*.x86_64
|
N/A
|
|
|
X
|
X
|
| gtk2-x11
|
N/A
|
libgthread-2_0-0-2
|
N/A
|
|
X
|
|
|
| libXtst
|
N/A
|
libXtst6-1
|
N/A
|
|
X
|
|
|
| libXtst
|
N/A
|
libXtst-*.x86_64
|
N/A
|
|
|
X
|
X
|
| glibc-devel
|
glibc-devel-*.i686
|
glibc-devel-*.x86_64
|
N/A
|
|
|
X
|
X
|
| PackageKit-gtk
|
N/A
|
PackageKit-gtk-module-*.x86_64
|
N/A
|
|
|
X
|
|
| PackageKit-gtk3
|
N/A
|
PackageKit-gtk3-module-*.x86_64
|
N/A
|
|
|
|
X
|
| gtk2-engines
|
N/A
|
gtk2-engines.*.x86_64
|
N/A
|
|
|
X
|
|
| libcanberra-gtk2
|
N/A
|
libcanberra-gtk2-*.x86_64
|
N/A
|
|
|
X
|
X
|
| webkitgtk
|
N/A
|
webkitgtk.x86_64
|
N/A
|
|
|
X
|
|
| webkitgtk3
|
N/A
|
webkitgtk3.x86_64
|
N/A
|
|
|
|
X
|
| xterm
|
Any version
|
Any version
|
Any version
|
X
|
X
|
X
|
X
|
| unzip
|
Any version
|
Any version
|
Any version
|
X
|
X
|
X
|
X
|
| libgnome
|
N/A
|
libgnome.x86_64
|
N/A
|
|
|
X
|
X
|
Note: 1 To install Eclipse on SUSE 11 you must have installed SuSe 11 Service Pack 3 or later.
* Additional libraries required to use the core_on_error runtime variable. The gdb packages (for the GNU Project Debugger)
can be installed from the install media for your OS.
** Operating system libraries required for PL/I support on both SUSE and Red Hat.
Visit the
Red Hat Web site for more information.
- Xterm, the terminal emulator for the X Window System, is part of your UNIX/Linux distribution but is not installed by default.
Use your UNIX/Linux installation media to install it.
- Oracle's Java Platform (64-bit) version 1.8.92 or above is required to run the Eclipse IDE. Java 7 and 8 (32 or 64-bit versions) are supported for executing JVM COBOL code and for native COBOL and Java interoperability.
You can download Oracle's Java EE from
Oracle's Web site and install it anywhere on your machine.
Note: On Linux, the RPM installer for
Visual COBOL for Eclipse installs a 64-bit version of Java. When you start the installation, if the 32-bit version of Java is already
installed on your Linux machine, you might not be able to install
Visual COBOL. This is a
known issue with the Oracle Java installers for Linux which prevents you from installing both the 32-bit and the 64-bit versions of Java
on the same machine. To work around this problem:
- Download the 64-bit Java distribution in a compressed .tar format from the Oracle Web site.
- Untar the distribution into a location different from the one used for the 32-bit Java version. For example, untar in
/usr/local/java64 and not in
/usr/local/java.
- Set JAVA_HOME and LD_LIBRARY_PATH to the 64-bit version of Java so that it is used to install and run
Visual COBOL.
Before you start the installation, you need to set the environment as follows:
- You need to set the JAVA_HOME environment variable. When installing the product, set this variable to a 64-bit Java installation
or the installation terminates. For example, execute the following:
JAVA_HOME=java_install_dir
where
java_install_dir is the path to the JAVA installation directory such as
/usr/java/javan.n
- You need to add
$JAVA_HOME/bin to your system PATH variable. To do this, execute:
export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
- You need to set the LANG environment variable to pick up localized messages. The LANG settings are English and Japanese only.
Important: This release requires version 10000.2.990 or later of the
Micro Focus License Administration tool. For local servers, you do not need to install it separately, as the setup file installs a new
Visual COBOL client and a new licensing server on the same machine.
If you have a network server, you must update the license server before installing the product as the client is not able
to communicate with license servers of versions older than 10000.2.660. On Windows, you can check the version of your license server by clicking
Help > About in the
Micro Focus License Administration tool. To check the version of the license server on UNIX, run
/var/microfocuslicensing/bin/mfcesver or
/var/microfocuslicensing/bin/cesadmintool.sh.
You can download the new version of the license server software from the
Micro Focus SupportLine Web site:
http://supportline.microfocus.com.