The sources may be used to built two versions of the emulator. By default, the development emulator is built. This emulator contains all features for interactive development of Prolog applications. If the system is configured using --enable-runtime, make(1) will create a runtime version of the emulator. This emulator is equivalent to the development version, except for the following features:
-lreadline
that provides EMACS compatible
editing of input lines will not be linked to the system.
The following fragment is an example for building the runtime
environment in \env{HOME}/lib/rt-pl-3.2.0
. If possible, the
shared-library interface should be configured to ensure it can serve a
large number of applications.
% cd pl-3.2.0 % mkdir runtime % cd runtime % ../src/configure --enable-runtime --prefix=$HOME % make % make rt-install
The runtime directory contains the components listed below. This directory may be tar'ed and shipped with your application.
README.RT | Info on the runtime environment |
bin/<arch>/pl | The emulator itself |
man/pl.1 | Manual page for pl |
swipl | pointer to the home directory (.) |
lib/ | directory for shared libraries |
lib/<arch>/ | machine-specific shared libraries |