Appendix D ECLiPSe Command Line Options
The ECLiPSe system has several parameters which may be specified on the
command line at invocation time. All the parameters are available with
the tty eclipse; with tkeclipse, only the -g and -l
parameters are available.
The parameters are as follows:
-
−b bootfile
-
Compile the file bootfile before starting the session.
Multiple -b options are allowed.
The file name is expected to be in the operating system's syntax.
The file is processed by
ensure_loaded/1,
i.e. it can be a precompiled file or a source file, and file extensions
are added as specified there.
- −e goal
-
Instead of starting an interactive toplevel, the system will execute the
goal goal. goal is given in normal Prolog syntax, and has to be
quoted if it contains any characters that would normally be interpreted by the
shell. The -e option can be used together with the -b option and is executed
afterwards. Only one -e option is allowed.
The exit status of the ECLiPSe process reflects success or failure of the
executed Prolog goal (0 for success, 1 for failure, 2 for abort).
When you only have a runtime installation of eclipse, the -e option
is compulsory because a runtime system does not have an interactive
toplevel.
- −g size
-
This option specifies to which limit the memory consumption of the
ECLiPSe global/trail stack can grow.
The size is specified in kilobytes (followed by an optional K), in megabytes
(followed by M) or in gigabytes (followed by G).
The default is 128M, ie. 128 Megabytes.
The amount required for this stack depends on the program's data
structures and may need to be increased for very large applications.
- −l size
-
This option specifies to which limit the memory consumption of the
ECLiPSe local/control stack can grow.
The size is specified in kilobytes (followed by an optional K), in megabytes
(followed by M) or in gigabytes (followed by G).
The default is 128M, ie. 128 Megabytes.
The local/control stack is unlikely to require more than this default.
If it does, it is probably caused by a programming error.
- −D directory
-
This options allows to explicitly specify the ECLiPSe installation
directory, i.e. the directory under which the system tries to find
the ECLiPSe runtime system and libraries. This option overrides
(and renders unnecessary) any setting of the ECLIPSEDIR environment
variable (Unix) or, respectively, an ECLIPSEDIR registry entry
(Windows) that may be in effect.
- − −
-
The ECLiPSe system will ignore this argument and everything that follows on
the commmand line. The Prolog program will only see the part of the
command line that follows this argument.