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Issues with library(pce)

Consequences

The library(pce) provides graphics to SWI-Prolog. It isn't needed to run Prolog, but you need it for:

  • Almost all development tools: editor, source navigator, cross-referencer, profiler, graphical debugger, etc.
  • The SPARQL implementation of ClioPatria uses it for regular expressions in SPARQL.

Solutions

Linux packages
Quite a few Linux packages for SWI-Prolog have a separate package for xpce because it requires X11. For example:
  • Debian based: 
    apt-get install swi-prolog-x
Sources on Unix systems
Often the jpeg or Xpm development libraries are missing. See here.
MacOS
On the Mac, the latest version of XQuartz is generally required. See https://xquartz.macosforge.org/landing/ If you build from source, make sure you have libjpeg and libXpm.
Windows
There are no known problems on this platform wrt. library(pce).
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LogicalCaptain said (2017-05-26T11:32:34):0 upvotes 0 0 downvotes
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Compiling on Fedora: At first sight, the error log seems to indicate that there is a problem with the library path:

"ERROR: Could not load/find library -lXpm. Please install the XPM library and rerun configure."

but /usr/lib64/libXpm.so clearly exists.

It turns out that devel library for the X Toolkit is missing:

dnf install libXt-devel

in addition to

dnf install libX11-devel libXpm-devel libXext-devel

and possibly others.

Confusing. Maybe passing to cmake (as foreseen) will make things better.