Dear Jie,
The PPL has been developed for GNU/Linux operating systems. A list of platforms that have been used to install the PPL are listed at http://www.cs.unipr.it/ppl/portability. It is not therefore so surprising that you have a problem installing it in "windows". If you would like to use the PPL, I suggest you try it on one of the recommended platforms.
For installing the PPL, see the instructions in ppl-0.7-1/INSTALL. However, before installation, it is worth also checking the installation requirements - and these are described at http://www.cs.unipr.it/ppl/Download/requirements.
Note also that instructions for dynamically loading the library in SICStus Prolog are described in the user documentation (which may be read at http://www.cs.unipr.it/ppl/Documentation/user/).
Let us know how you get on.
best wishes, Pat
On Wed, 27 Apr 2005, jouyang wrote:
Dear Pat,
Thank you for your reply. I am using PPL version 0.7 and SICStus prolog under windows. I downloaded the package and uncompressed it. Actually I don't know how to make sure the package is properly installed. Do I need to compile the source files? I did 'automake' for the package but it seemed nothing was changed. When I consult 'sp_pl_check.pl' in the 'ppl/interfaces/Prolog/SICStus', the error I get is 'Existence error in argument 1 of load_foreign_resource/1 file ppl_sicstus does not exist'. I doubt the package is not installed. Can you tell what I missed from the above information? Your help is greatly appreciated. Look forward to your reply. Thanks again.
Best regards,
Jie
-----Original Message----- From: P M Hill [mailto:hill@comp.leeds.ac.uk] Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2005 2:45 AM To: jouyang Cc: ppl-devel@cs.unipr.it Subject: Re: [PPL-devel] question about ppl and prolog.
Dear Jie,
We would be happy to help you get started with the PPL, but you do not give us much information.
I assume you have successfully installed the PPL and at least one of the
Prolog interfaces. Is this correct? Then, in this case, we need to know which Prolog interfaces you have installed. The way we use the Prolog interface for the PPL partly depends on the Prolog system itself.
There are several examples of Prolog programs that use the PPL included in the `ppl/interfaces/Prolog/tests' directory (clpq.pl, clpq2.pl and pl_check.pl). Any extra code needed for the specific Prolog system to be
used are in the appropriate subdirectories. You can see these being run if you do a "make check" for the Prolog System you have installed. I suggest you look at at least one of these examples to see how things work before
writing your own interface. Note that the program pl_check.pl executes every one of the Prolog predicates provided by the PPL and, hence, provides examples of their use.
As regards "initializing" the library, normally, in the Prolog code, before using any of the main PPL predicates, you should first call the proposition: ppl_initialize. This, in fact, initializes the PPL system.
Information about the installation and use of the Prolog systems is also
in the documentation. Have a look at the section on "System-Dependent Features" for your Prolog system you are using.
If you want more help, let us know which Prolog system you are using and if you can run "make check" successfully on this system.
All the best, Pat
On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, jouyang wrote:
Hi, I am new to PPL and Prolog. I am trying to use PPL in Prolog programs. Can someone give an example showing how to initialize the library and use the interfaces. Thanks in advance.
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