If you want to use a SWI-Prolog program as a stand-alone .exe, you can do this using qsave_program/2 or using the commandline. The command below creates myapp.exe from load.pl. The preferred way to start the program is by using the initialization/2 directive as also described in RunProgram.md.

swipl.exe -o myapp.exe -c load.pl

To run, myapp.exe requires .dll files from the SWI-Prolog's bin directory. To find these, the Windows version provides win_process_modules/1. This predicate returns a list of all DLLs loaded into the process. This includes the DLLs needed to run SWI-Prolog, the DLLs used by the loaded extensions and the standard Windows DLLs. You can now copy all DLL files reported by win_process_modules/1 that are part of the SWI-Prolog distribution. The Prolog flag home provides access to the root of the distribution hierarchy.

The required .dll files must be installed in the same directory as the executable.

See also

- In many cases, it is way easier to start an application from the Prolog source.