Tried installing the binary of SWI-Prolog (swi-prolog-5.8.2-leopard-intel.mpkg) on my Mac OS X 10.5 box. For whatever reason, it was bombing out with some nasty errors (Libary not loaded … image not found). Read about others’ troubles and decided to try MacPorts. Couldn’t get SWI-Prolog to install using a standard:
$ sudo port -v install swi-prolog
Ended up getting lots of BS errors on the lines of “ERROR: Could not load/find library -lXpm.”
***************************************************************** * ERROR: Could not load/find library -lXpm. * * Please install the XPM library and rerun configure. * * The primary source for libXpm is at: * * * * http://www-sop.inria.fr/koala/lehors/xpm.html * * * * NOTE: If your system has libXpm, check the following: * * * * - Do you have the development version of the library? * * - Is the library you have of the right architecture? * * - Could it be that other parts of X11 are missing? * * (typically the case if -lXext is also missing) * * * * Examine packages/xpce/src/config.log for details * * Linux users: check README.debian for dependencies * * (note that the exact package names vary between * * distributions). * *****************************************************************
Long story short: For various reasons, the MacPorts installed software wasn’t finding my Apple Developer X11 libraries, and it also wasn’t appropriately requiring the software as dependencies for the swi-prolog package. Had to do the following:
$ sudo port -v install xpm
$ sudo port -v install xorg-libXt
$ sudo port -v install Xft2
to get the prereqs installed (warning: those libs, in turn, have some mongo big dependencies, like Perl itself, so be ready for some serious compiling). After that, installing swi-prolog worked just fine.
Thanks for this blog, I encountered the very same problem!