This page provides a brief overview of the packages delivered as part of the SWI-Prolog official source-tree. Packages are libraries, often involving foreign parts, that can be installed on top of SWI-Prolog/lite, the plain Prolog compiler.
In addition to the packages described here there are contributed packages that are not part of the SWI-Prolog source-tree. Check the SWI-Prolog package home.
| Package | Status | Description |
|---|---|---|
| pldoc | Installed (Beta) | JavaDoc like documentation system integrated with searchable manual. |
| plunit | Installed (Beta) | Unit-test test framework. |
| clib | Installed | Communication and Process management: TCP/IP sockets, Unix fork and kill, time and alarm management, crypto functions. |
| ssl | Installed (beta) | Interface to SSL (Secure Socket Layer) |
| tipc | Installed if supported (mostly Linux) (beta) | Interface to TIPC (Transparent Inter-Process Communications) sockets. |
| cpp | Installed | A true C++ interface |
| jpl | Installed (Beta) | Bidirectional Java/Prolog interface |
| ODBC | Installed | ODBC Database interface |
| CQL | Installed | High level SQL database interface |
| sgml | Installed | Read and write XML/SGML/HTML documents |
| sgml/RDF | Installed | RDF handling on top of pl2sgml |
| semweb | Installed | Storing, querying and managment of RDF triple sets |
| NLP | Installed | NLP basics: Porter stem, Double Metaphone |
| http | Installed | HTTP client and server libraries |
| http | Installed | Web Logic Programming Made Easy |
| table | Installed | Access field/record files quickly |
| XPCE | Installed | Graphical UI toolkit and development add-ons |
| Zlib | Installed | Compressed I/O, read/write gzip files. |
| protobufs | Installed | Interface to Google protobufs |
| PDT | Installed | Support for the PDT Eclipse plugin |
| libedit | Installed | Provide BSD libedit based commandline editing |
| readline | Installed | Provide GNU readline based commandline editing |
| BDB | Installed | BerkeleyDB interface |
| ltx2htm | Not integrated, Unix only | LaTeX to HTML in Prolog. Used for manual and package documentation. |