The migration to CMake opens the route to build SWI-Prolog on Windows using Microsoft Visual Studio. I pushed some updates to swipl-devel that allowed me building swipl.exe for single-threaded use and without GMP. The CMake config run is mkdir build.vs2019 cd build.vs2019 cmake -DMINGW_ROOT=z:/co…

What is the advantage of compiling with MS Visual Studio?

[image] swi: What is the advantage of compiling with MS Visual Studio? I think Jan is trying to say that for those who develop on Windows, like me, and want to build the code from source, this would be a better means in some scenarios. AFAIK there would be no advantage to building on Windows …

Unfortunately it won’t be that smooth. SWI-Prolog has quite a few external dependencies and some of these are hard to get for Windows. I’m looking into Conan for that, but for now it only solves about half the dependencies and some are known to be nasty, notably the GMP library. The options seem…

In looking to do a native Windows build of RocksDB found vcpkg which has a port for RocksDB vcpkg/ports/rocksdb at 7139d6c222641e007079059172db8998819b0bba · microsoft/vcpkg · GitHub They also have code for the items in the noted list above . Name vcpkg Version bdb .\vcpkg install berkeley…

Good to know. That may make an MSVC build of the whole thing feasible. That should simplify debugging. Would be nice to see it at work. One of the reasons to switch to MinGW was that the result was about 30% faster. Would be interesting to know whether that is still the case. The other…

For those following along who are as naive as me when it comes to building for multiple systems (Unix/Linux, Windows, MacOS), two libraries that are widely used and easy to find source code, build files, test cases and built executables for are zlib ( GitHub , Home page , Wikipedia ) libffi ( GitHub , H…

Now have zlib building on Windows 10 using Visual Studio 2022 generating zlib1.dll without any problems. Was able to replace it with the one in C:\Program Files\swipl\bin\zlib1.dll and successfully run the SWI-Prolog zlib package tests . ▶ Click triangle to expand for details

I’ve recently been working on this again and have followed the steps outlined in the “Preparation” section of Building SWI-Prolog on MS-Windows . The process successfully produces a working command-line version of swipl . Using epilog/0, I’m able to start a GUI and even single-step with the debugger. …

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