[REQUEST] Define documentation describing absolute bare-minimum setup

[axtens]

I'm setting up a gnucobol track on Exercism.org. I'm currently trying to establish the absolute bare-minimum setup so that I can create completely self-contained tasks. Granted, the gnucobol compiler itself won't be part of the container but I'm considering including the cobol-check binary and relatively-pathed configuration files.

Where do I begin?

[axtens]

My present folder structure, for the hello-world task, is

Folder PATH listing for volume OS
Volume serial number is 14F0-1FA8
C:.
|   cobolcheck
|   cobolcheck.cmd
|   config.properties
|   
+---.docs
|       instructions.md
|       
+---.meta
|       config.json
|       
+---bin
|       cobol-check-0.1.0.jar
|       
+---scripts
|       linux_gnucobol_run_tests
|       windows_gnucobol_run_tests.cmd
|       
+---src
|       hello-world.cbl
|       
\---test
        hello-world

Also find attached a config.properties that doesn't work and I haven't figured out yet why

config.properties.txt

[dakaa16]

Hi @axtens thank you for your interest in Cobol Check. I have described the smallest setup you can currently have with Cobol Check here, do let me know, if something isn't clear. The problem with your setup is that your test-file is required to be inside a folder, with a name matching your source program. So inside your test folder, should be a folder named 'hello-world' and inside that folder you may have all your tests for that program, named whatever you want.

[dakaa16]

Also; I'd like to know where you got your distribution, as it's only very outdated distributions you can get online

[axtens]

Hello @daaka16, and thank you for your assistance. Regarding version I have c:\Users\bugma\Dropbox\Projects\gnucobol\exercises\practice\hello-world>echo off CobolCheck: INFO 2022-07-08T12:38:07.739582500Z INF001: Attempting to load config from config.properties. CobolCheck: INFO 2022-07-08T12:38:07.752592500Z INF002: Loaded config successfully from config.properties. Version: 0.1.0 I am finding your instructions problematic. Here's my directory structure: C:. | cobolcheck | cobolcheck.cmd | config.properties | +---.docs | instructions.md | +---.meta | config.json | +---bin | cobol-check-0.1.0.jar | +---hello-world | hello-world | +---scripts | linux_gnucobol_run_tests | windows_gnucobol_run_tests.cmd | \---src hello-world.cbl When I run cobolcheck I get c:\Users\bugma\Dropbox\Projects\gnucobol\exercises\practice\hello-world>cobolcheck c:\Users\bugma\Dropbox\Projects\gnucobol\exercises\practice\hello-world>echo off CobolCheck: INFO 2022-07-08T12:52:20.964858600Z INF001: Attempting to load config from config.properties. CobolCheck: INFO 2022-07-08T12:52:20.972852200Z INF002: Loaded config successfully from config.properties. CobolCheck: INFO 2022-07-08T12:52:20.974860400Z INF001: Attempting to load config from config.properties. CobolCheck: INFO 2022-07-08T12:52:20.975862400Z INF002: Loaded config successfully from config.properties. CobolCheck: INFO 2022-07-08T12:52:20.975862400Z INF003: Cobol-Check starting CobolCheck: INFO 2022-07-08T12:52:20.975862400Z INF005: Log level is INFO. CobolCheck: INFO 2022-07-08T12:52:20.975862400Z INF006: Configuration settings: production. CobolCheck: INFO 2022-07-08T12:52:20.982854100Z WRN001: No test suite directory for program was found under directory src\. CobolCheck: INFO 2022-07-08T12:52:20.982854100Z INF004: Cobol-Check terminating cobc: hello-world.CBL: No such file or directory Kind regards, Bruce.

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On Fri, 8 Jul 2022 at 18:03, dakaa16 ***@***.***> wrote: Also; I'd like to know where you got your distribution, as it's only very outdated distributions you can get online — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#218 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AABTFVJSTFKVR6NZLVSXVALVS74HRANCNFSM5275BLZA> . You are receiving this because you were mentioned.Message ID: ***@***.***>

[dakaa16]

Your hello-world folder should be inside your src folder. That should fix it.

[axtens]

Sadly, that didn't fix the problem. So I've boiled my config.properties down to just the three lines your guide described, viz application.source.directory = src application.copybook.directory = src test.suite.directory = src Tree is now C:. | cobolcheck | cobolcheck.cmd | config.properties | +---.docs | instructions.md | +---.meta | config.json | +---bin | cobol-check-0.1.0.jar | +---scripts | linux_gnucobol_run_tests | windows_gnucobol_run_tests.cmd | \---src | hello-world.cbl | \---hello-world hello-world.cut And a run with debug level logging gives c:\Users\bugma\Dropbox\Projects\gnucobol\exercises\practice\hello-world>cobolcheck -l debug c:\Users\bugma\Dropbox\Projects\gnucobol\exercises\practice\hello-world>echo off Could Not Find c:\Users\bugma\Dropbox\Projects\gnucobol\exercises\practice\hello-world\hello-world* CobolCheck: INFO 2022-07-08T13:27:48.229230400Z INF001: Attempting to load config from config.properties. CobolCheck: INFO 2022-07-08T13:27:48.235590600Z INF002: Loaded config successfully from config.properties. CobolCheck: INFO 2022-07-08T13:27:48.239627600Z INF001: Attempting to load config from config.properties. CobolCheck: INFO 2022-07-08T13:27:48.240724600Z INF002: Loaded config successfully from config.properties. CobolCheck: DEBUG 2022-07-08T13:27:48.241619600Z INF003: Cobol-Check starting CobolCheck: DEBUG 2022-07-08T13:27:48.241619600Z INF005: Log level is DEBUG. CobolCheck: DEBUG 2022-07-08T13:27:48.241619600Z INF006: Configuration settings: . CobolCheck: DEBUG 2022-07-08T13:27:48.242634700Z StringHelper.adjustPathString() original string: <src> CobolCheck: DEBUG 2022-07-08T13:27:48.242634700Z StringHelper.adjustPathString() Constants.FILE_SEPARATOR: <\> CobolCheck: DEBUG 2022-07-08T13:27:48.242634700Z StringHelper.adjustPathString() os.name is <Windows 11> CobolCheck: DEBUG 2022-07-08T13:27:48.242634700Z StringHelper.adjustStringPath() result is <src> CobolCheck: DEBUG 2022-07-08T13:27:48.247640700Z WRN001: No test suite directory for program was found under directory src\. CobolCheck: DEBUG 2022-07-08T13:27:48.247640700Z INF004: Cobol-Check terminating cobc: hello-world.CBL: No such file or directory Kind regards, Bruce

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On Fri, 8 Jul 2022 at 21:16, dakaa16 ***@***.***> wrote: Your hello-world folder should be inside your src folder. That should fix it. — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#218 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AABTFVMLUOMS5OH63RMRZV3VTAS4HANCNFSM5275BLZA> . You are receiving this because you were mentioned.Message ID: ***@***.***>

[dakaa16]

Hi Bruce

I have now made it clear in the wiki, that the configurations shown in the guide, is only the three values that you have to change, as we discussed - so I consider this issue closed.

Have a great day