10.17.3 Other Changes

• Under Windows, the name of the static SICStus run-time has changed from sprt310.lib to sprt310_static.lib. At the same time the import library for the dynamic SICStus run-time has changed to sprt310.lib. This change should only affect those that do not use spld to build executables.
• Under Windows it is not longer possible to link with the SICStus run-time using MS Visual Studio 5. This has been unsupported for years but now it has really ceased to work.
• Under Windows the windowed version of SICStus will put up a license entry dialog if the license has expired or is invalid. There is also a menu item for changing the license, e.g. when changing from a time limited license to a permanent license. This renders splm obsolete under Windows.
• The Visual Basic interface no longer loads any supporting Prolog code, i.e. vbsp.pl and vbsp.po are gone. A side benefit of this is that you can call restore/1 from Visual Basic, even though calling load_files/2 may be better.
• user:file_search_path/2 and user:library_directory/1 are undefined at startup, but behave as if they were dynamic, multifile predicates.