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SWI-Prolog for Windows
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Last update: Sep 22, 2011
It is strongly adviced to install the binaries from
http://www.swi-prolog.org. They are shipped with a readme file that
explains specific issues about running SWI-Prolog on the Windows
platform.
Building from source used to be very hard, but thanks to the work of
Degski it is now a bit more feasible. Still, you probably only want this
if you want to do development on SWI-Prolog or debug issues with
C<->Prolog interfacing. See http://www.swi-prolog.org/build/windows.html
for details.
Degski says "being able to include a tuned GMP/MPIR in the build is
another one [JW: reason to build it yourself]. On x64, a tuned GMP/swipl
build is about 4 times faster as compared to the generic build, so it's
really worth the trouble if one does alot of bignum stuff."
See also README.mingw, which explains building SWI-Prolog using the
MinGW (http://www.mingw.org/) toolchain. This can also be used to
cross-compile SWI-Prolog for Windows using e.g. a Linux machine for the
compilation.