Wiki Discussion: Install SWI-Prolog development version on Windows 10

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This is a topic to discuss the Wiki

Install SWI-Prolog development version on Windows 10

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Why is that? I’m afraid the last time I installed the Windows versions is very long ago, but the idea is that you can install a new version on top of the old. What is going wrong?

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Didn’t know this.

I will clean my directory, install a stable version, then install a dev version on top of that without an uninstall and let you know.

Thanks.

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In general this should work. The only downside is that if some file has been removed in the new version it will still be present in the upgraded version. If I recall well though the installer asks for deletion of the old version.

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That is correct.

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Modified uninstall post to note possibility of added uninstall question, and that a new install can be done without an uninstall without problems :smiley:

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During the install process tried to uninstall current version when prompted by Windows installer. The uninstall failed even right after a system reboot.

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Install without uninstalling previous version still completed successfully.

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Today tried using winget to see how it works for installing SWI-Prolog.

C:\Users\Groot>winget search swi-prolog
Name       Id                    Version Source
------------------------------------------------
SWI-Prolog SWI-Prolog.SWI-Prolog 8.4.3   winget

C:\Users\Groot>winget install swi-prolog
Found SWI-Prolog [SWI-Prolog.SWI-Prolog] Version 8.4.3
This application is licensed to you by its owner.
Microsoft is not responsible for, nor does it grant any licenses to, third-party packages.
Downloading https://www.swi-prolog.org/download/stable/bin/swipl-8.4.3-1.x64.exe
  ██████████████████████████████  12.2 MB / 12.2 MB
Successfully verified installer hash
Starting package install...
Installer failed with exit code: 2

AFAIK the code that sets up NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) for SWI-Prolog is in

which is causing Installer failed with exit code: 2 If one downloads SWI-Prolog for Windows, starts NSIS installer and tries to uninstall a currently installed version when prompted they will see the installer failing as noted in the previous post.

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