How to use CLIPS rule based engine in a linux environment

Question

I am new to computer science. My project requires to use CLIPS rule based engine and it runs in a RHEL box. Looking at the download link for clips (http://sourceforge.net/projects/clipsrules/files/CLIPS/6.30/) there is no linux package available. I was wondering if this means I need to build it out of the source files to use it in RHEL?

Thanks in advance.

Dg

Answer 1

There are instructions in section 2 of the Advanced Programming Guide, http://clipsrules.sourceforge.net/documentation/v630/apg.htm, for recompiling CLIPS on different platforms. The simplest way to create an executable is to place the core source code in a directory and compile it with a single line command:

gcc -o clips -DLINUX=1 *.c -lm

If you get any errors, try compiling with the GENERIC flag rather than LINUX:

gcc -o clips -DGENERIC=1 *.c -lm

Liturgist

Both commands are the same. How do you use the "GENERIC flag" ? – Phiona

Edited the answer, changing LINUX to GENERIC in the 2nd command. – Liturgist

Answer 2

For Ubuntu 20.04 (Focal Fossa) you'll have to download and manually install the packages libclips, clips-common, and clips (in that order) from https://packages.ubuntu.com/groovy/clips

Use the following command for each package file:

$ sudo dpkg -i packagefilename

Xenogenesis

Answer 3

for ubuntu:

$ sudo apt-get install clips

Criminal

for RHEL, maybe try $ sudo yum install clips – Criminal

Hi, I cant install it. It said unable to locate clips, is there any solution for that? I am using Ubuntu 18.04 – Scruple

Answer 4

First you go into https://sourceforge.net/projects/clipsrules/files/CLIPS/6.40/

Download the core file, name : clips_core_source_640.tar.gz

Then unzip the folder,you will find a folder there named Core.

Go inside the folder,open terminal and run "make" command like this

make

Then you will be able to run clips with

./clips

You can run clips only in the core file

EDIT:

I found out how you can run clips from everywhere,

Go inside the core folder and run:

sudo cp clips /usr/local/bin 
sudo cp libclips.a /usr/local/lib
sudo cp clips.h /usr/local/include

With this way you will be able just to type clips and run it wherever you are.

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