Subject: Re: XPCE as a regular library?

From: Jan Wielemaker <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 09:49:27 +0100

> Could XPCE be packaged as a regular SWI-Prolog library, to be loaded
> dynamically if required?
> 
> I mean, in principle: this is not a request (yet :-)
> 
> Does XPCE interact with the Prolog kernel in ways which the Foreign
> Language Interface doesn't support?

It is since years, and most people use it this way.  It doesn't
do anything not in the foreign interface, though some things it
uses are not described in the reference manual, but only very briefly
in SWI-Prolog.h (event synchronisation for the Unix version to name the
most important one).

	Regards --- Jan