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Embedded applications |
Most of the above assumes Prolog is‘in charge’of the application and C++ is used to add functionality to Prolog, either for accessing external resources or for performance reasons. In some applications, there is a main-program and we want to use Prolog as a logic server. For these applications, the class PlEngine has been defined.
Only a single instance of this class can exist in a process. When used in a multi-threading application, only one thread at a time may have a running query on this engine. Applications should ensure this using proper locking techniques.1For Unix, there is a multi-threaded version of SWI-Prolog. In this version each thread can create and destroy a thread-engine. There is currently no C++ interface defined to access this functionality, though ---of course--- you can use the C-functions.
argv[0]
from its main function, which is needed in the Unix version to find the
running executable. See PL_initialise() for details.argv[0]
.Section 1.4.11 has a simple example using this class.