@jan In a recent discussion with the developers of Discourse ( ref ) it was suggest that one way to use SWI-Prolog in a Discourse post would be to use SWI-Prolog compiled to WASM . I gave the demo a quick test but it could not return multiple answers via entering ;. To avoid an extended period of t…

I tried to compile it recently, but failed because the CMake toolchain description in Emscripten was broken, causing problems running ar (the library archiver). Might be fixed of course. As is though, SWI-Prolog as WASM is pretty much a demonstrator. It doesn’t have a good working console (AFAIK…

also WASM will have to --disable-mt ?

It is called different in the CMake days, but yes. The WASM version is 32-bit and single threaded. For LPN that is good enough :slight_smile: It could have multi engine support. That now relies on threads, but this can be untangled.

I’m working on WASM right now, and fyi it does have multithreading support! I’ve actually been wanting it as a backend for Swish, but no reason it couldn’t work on Discourse as well. (in case anyone is curious, in terms of progress: I currently have a full build working with thread support compiled…

What is the status of SWI-Prolog ported to WebAssembly

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EricGT May 16, 2020, 2:31pm 3

For those wondering what the LPN comment is about see this post which has my latest notes on the concept.

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What is the status of SWI-Prolog ported to WebAssembly

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