Since the Prolog and C parts of Sweep are distributed and installed
along with SWI-Prolog (see Installation), the easiest way to set
up Sweep for development is to start with a SWI-Prolog development
setup. Clone the swipl-devel Git repository, go the
subdirectory packages/sweep that contains Sweep as a Git
submodule, and update it to the latest development version:
git clone --recursive https://github.com/SWI-Prolog/swipl-devel.git cd swipl-devel/packages/sweep git checkout master git pull
The directory packages/sweep in the swipl-devel
repository now contains the development version of Sweep. You can
hack on Sweep’s source files and then (re)build SWI-Prolog to test
your changes. See
Building SWI-Prolog using cmake for more information about building
SWI-Prolog from source.
If you only modify the Elisp library sweeprolog.el, you do not need to rebuild SWI-Prolog. You can simply evaluate and test your changes directly inside Emacs (see (emacs)Lisp Eval).
If you change sweep.c or otherwise want to rebuild SWI-Prolog, you can do that from the packages/sweep subdirectory by running the following command:
ninja -C ../../build