Re: Powerloom API

Hans Chalupsky wrote:
> 
> Andrea,
> 
> to be able to call PowerLoom and STELLA functions in your code,
> include the file powerloom-system.hh which will include all other
> necessary files (the file lives in powerloom/native/cpp/powerloom/).
> Use -Ipowerloom/native/cpp in your C++ compilation (adjust the path to
> your installation directory) so that it will find all the include files.
> 
> Then there are two ways to interface your C++ code with PowerLoom:
> 
> (1) Have PowerLoom be the main application shell and add your own
> extensions to it.  To do that you'd have to edit main.c in
> powerloom/native/cpp/powerloom/ to include/call your code and edit the
> Makefile in the same directory to link with your extension
> files/libraries.
> 
> (2) Treat PowerLoom as a library and link it with your C++
> application.  To do that first build the C++ version of PowerLoom (see
> the manual - basically type `make' in the
> powerloom/native/cpp/powerloom directory) which will build the various
> PowerLoom libraries such as stella.so, logic.so, etc.  Then link your
> C++ application with the libraries built (look at the final link step
> when `make'ing PowerLoom which will show you which of these libraries
> you'll need to link with your application; use the switch
> -Lpowerloom/native/cpp/lib to tell the compiler where all the
> libraries live).
> 
> Hope that does the trick.  All of this assumes a Unix-based
> environment such as Linux or MinGW/Cygwin under Windows.
> 
> Hans
> 
> 
Thanks very much. You have been really useful to me.
I had already seen that powerloom-system.hh includes other files including
other files etc.
Now I'm trying to understand which functions correspond to basic PowerLom
commands like defconcept, defrelation etc. I think they're all in
logic-inn.hh, aren't they?
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