Hi! When writing Prolog I use 4 components on my mac: (1) SWI Prolog (2) Visual Studio Code by Microsoft (3) The VSC Prolog extension by Arthur Wang (4) Some Prolog pack (installed with pack_install/1). It takes a couple of steps to get this up and running. Is it somehow possible to automate t…

Do all your students have Macs? When I was a student in one of the lectures we got a ready-made virtual machine image with stuff installed on it. So we only had to install the VM client. VirtualBox for example seems to be available for Windows and for OS X, as well as the mainstream Linux distribut…

Aha, great idea, thanks. Some might have Windows. I’ll check out VirtualBox! /JCR

While Virtual Box will work on Windows and that was the solution I used many years ago, the more common way to do such on Windows currently for development is to use WSL 2 . If you like Visual Studio Code then a more advanced solution is to use a container, see: Developing inside a Container . I als…

At least for the first step, swivm might come in handy. (Disclaimer: I’m its author.)

A word of warning about Macs and VirtualBox though – the new “M1” macs currently aren’t supported.

With macs there is always something that’s not supported :upside_down_face:

[image] JCR: Is it somehow possible to automate the installation of these components With regards to just Windows. I have not tried this yet as I just learned of Windows Sandbox . Windows Sandbox has the ability to use a configuration file and the configuration file has a logon command . Sin…

Thanks for the suggestion @EricGT ! And all the useful links. I did not know about Windows Sandbox either. I will have a closer look and report back if i find any useful information!

Automate installation of SWI Prolog etc?

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