pgf works without install c runtime

[Syber Geng]

Hello GF-dev team,

       I just started to use pgf in python. I saw in the documentation that c runtime is required to use the python binding. I notice that even without installing c runtime, I'm still able to call function such as parse, linearize in pgf without an issue. Is this normal ?

 

[Inari]

You don't have to install the C runtime manually to have the python bindings. It should work if you either

a) installed the GF binary: see https://www.grammaticalframework.org/download/index-3.11.html

    Binary packages are available for Debian/Ubuntu, macOS, and Windows and include:

• GF shell and grammar compiler
• gf -server mode
• C run-time system
• Java & Python bindings to the C run-time system

b) installed the Python bindings with pip.

If one or both of these holds for you, everything is as expected.

Inari

[Syber Geng]

Thank you for the answer !