GNU Prolog Win32 port

[Cesar Rabak]

I found arousing the proposal of GNU Prolog of being able to compile 
prolog sources w/o a C compiler and installed in a Win XP machine the 
1.2.16 version (installer: setup-gprolog-1.2.16.exe).

The first thing I noticed is that it requires NASM to assemble the 
assembly files, which is not nor included nor mentioned in the 
documentation¹.

Installed the Netwide Assembler, the compilation failed due a lacking of 
the cl.exe (MSVC command line compiler!). . .

I _understood_ that it is being used only as a *linker* and not as the 
full blown C/C++ compiler, but, unfortunately it is not easy to come by 
a free² version of it. I have been told that a .NET toolkit comes with 
working version of it, but you have to download as well the Win32 SDK 
which can easily bring the download to more than 200 Megs.

Also, for the users that have access to a MSVC++ installation, it would 
be interesting to point out that the Makefile in the ExamplesC would 
need to be rewritten, as the CFLAGS options do not work for the 
Microsoft compiler (that in this port it call by default).

I hope this short report is helpful.

--
Cesar Rabak
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[1] That I could find!
[2] at least as free beer in the GNU sense.