SWI-Prolog -- qcompile/1

Documentation
- Reference manual
  - Built-in Predicates
    - Loading Prolog source files
      - Quick load files
        
        qcompile/1
        
        qcompile/2
- Packages

Availability:built-in

qcompile(:File)

Takes a file specification as consult/1, etc., and, in addition to the normal compilation, creates a Quick Load File from File. The file extension of this file is .qlf. The basename of the Quick Load File is the same as the input file.

If the file contains‘:- consult(+File)’,‘:- [+File]’or‘:- load_files(+File, [qcompile(part), ...])’statements, the referred files are compiled into the same .qlf file. Other directives will be stored in the .qlf file and executed in the same fashion as when loading the .pl file.

For term_expansion/2, the same rules as described in section 2.11 apply.

Conditional execution or optimisation may test the predicate compiling/0.

Source references (source_file/2) in the Quick Load File refer to the Prolog source file from which the compiled code originates.