qpc, the Prolog-to-QOF Compiler
There are two main ways to invoke
% qpc -c P1.pl,...,Pn.pl (A) % qpc [-D] [-o output-file] P1.pl
qpc, the Prolog-to-QOF Compiler
There are two main ways to invoke
% qpc -c P1.pl,...,Pn.pl (A) % qpc [-D] [-o output-file] P1.pl,...,Pn.pl (B)
qpc with the
means "compile to QOF and stop"; it simply produces a QOF file for
each source file, as shown in the above figure.
qpc without specifying
compiles all the sources to QOF and then calls
build an executable file corresponding to those sources.
qld that the program is to be linked with
the Development Kernel rather than the Runtime Kernel.
specifies a name for the executable file to be built by
qld. Defaults to
passed on to
qld if they were specified in the
qpc command line.
.plextensions may be omitted in the
qpccommand line (provided that there is not another file with the same name and no extension.) Also, the Prolog files need not have
.plextensions. If a Prolog file does not have one, the name of the corresponding object format file is simply the name of the Prolog source file extended with
.qof. Otherwise, the name of the corresponding object format file is the name of the Prolog source file with the
.plextension replaced by
.qof. Source files may be specified as absolute or relative filenames; each QOF file goes in the same directory as its source.
Further options allow you to run
qpc in a verbose mode, to specify
initialization files or add-ons, to customize the library search path,
or make certain predicates invisible to the debugger.
For a summary of all the options to
qpc, see too-too-qpc.