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| 2 | Logtalk - Open source object-oriented logic programming language |
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| 3 | Release 2.31.1 |
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| 5 | Copyright (c) 1998-2008 Paulo Moura. All Rights Reserved. |
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| 6 | ================================================================ |
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| 7 | |
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| 8 | This folder contains a Prolog file, "libpaths.pl", which, when loaded, |
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| 9 | defines the library paths for the Logtalk standard library and for all |
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| 10 | the supplied examples. You may customize this file by adding the paths |
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| 11 | to your own "libraries" in order to easily load your own source code. |
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| 12 | |
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| 13 | In order to easily compile and load library and example source files using |
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| 14 | the notation <library>(<entity>), you will need to load the "libpaths.pl" |
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| 15 | into your Prolog compiler after loading the Logtalk compiler/runtime. |
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| 17 | You might need to edit the "libpaths.pl" file in order to adapt it to |
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| 18 | reflect your Logtalk installation, Prolog compiler, and operating-system |
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| 19 | requirements (for example, some Prolog compilers do not accept or expand |
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| 20 | environment variables occurring on paths). |
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| 21 | |
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| 22 | As defined, the provided "libpaths.pl" file is already compatible with |
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| 23 | some of the most popular Prolog compilers, running on MacOS X, Linux, |
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| 24 | Windows, Unix, and Unix-like operating-systems. |
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| 26 | The Prolog integration scripts, found on the "integration" directory, |
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| 27 | automatically load the copy of the "libpaths.pl" file from the Logtalk |
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| 28 | end-user directory created by the "scripts/cplgtdirs.*" scripts. See the |
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| 29 | "INSTALL.txt" and "scripts/NOTES.txt" files for more details. Note that |
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| 30 | some Prolog compilers do not support the <library>(<entity>) notation. |
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| 31 | See the "configs/NOTES.txt" file for details. |
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| 33 | The somehow contrived code found on the "libpaths.pl" file is needed to |
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| 34 | ensure compatibility with both the ISO Prolog standard and with most |
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| 35 | Prolog compilers. The code could be greatly simplified by using a multifile |
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| 36 | predicate directive for the library path dynamic predicate. Unfortunately, |
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| 37 | not all Prolog compilers support multifile predicates. |
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| 38 | |
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| 39 | Prolog compilers that are expected to be compatible with the provided |
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| 40 | "libpaths.pl" file as is, across operating-systems: |
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| 41 | |
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| 42 | * B-Prolog |
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| 43 | * CIAO |
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| 44 | * CxProlog |
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| 45 | * ECLiPSe |
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| 46 | * GNU-Prolog |
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| 47 | * K-Prolog |
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| 48 | * Qu-Prolog |
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| 49 | * SICStus Prolog |
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| 50 | * SWI-Prolog |
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| 51 | * YAP |
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| 52 | * XSB |
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| 53 | |
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| 54 | Prolog compilers that imply editing the provided "libpaths.pl" file due |
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| 55 | to the lack of support for expanding environment variables on paths: |
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| 56 | |
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| 57 | * Amzi! Prolog |
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| 58 | * IF/Prolog |
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| 59 | * JIProlog |
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| 60 | |
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| 61 | Feedback on other Prolog compilers is most appreciated. |
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