The project requirements broadly are as follows:

1. Build CLIPS (6.3) as a shared lib on Ubuntu (9.10) using QT Creator etc, and provide project file and all source files

2. Create a MDI QT GUI application

3. Extend CLIPs with a set of functions that allows CLIPS to call into an external C/C++ library
The functions should:
(i). demonstrate accepting and returning all the possible data types known by CLIPS
(ii). Be callable (i.e. used and recognized) in the CLI window - meaning that for example if the functions foo and foobar
were added as extensions to the embeded CLIPS engine, then foo and foobar should be able to be used in the CLI
(iv). Include a function which wraps around Curl to fetch data from a specified url. For the purposes of this test, the retuned data should simply be dumped to CLI screen (see next requirement below) as output

4. The MDI app should provide:
(i). A window that serves as a CLI (command lline interface) for interaction with the embedded CLIPS rule engine
(ii). A syntax highlighter window for displaying contents of open .clp files (see http://doc.trolltech.com/4.2/richtext-syntaxhighlighter.html)
(iii). A simple File menu with the following submenus:
(a) Open menu - this allows a user to select a .clp file for editing (in the syntax editor)
(b) Save menu - this allows a user to save teh current .clp file to disk
(c) Exit menu - this terminates the rule engine and exits the application


Notes:
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(a) You can find out more about CLIPS here: http://clipsrules.sourceforge.net/
(b). The latest code for building the embedded engine can be found here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/clipsrules/files/CLIPS/6.30/CLIPS_6.30_Beta_Mac_OS_X_R1.zip/download
(c). Documentation on embedding and extending CLIPs can be found here: http://clipsrules.sourceforge.net/documentation/v630/apg.pdf
(d). Documentation on Interfaces can be found here: http://clipsrules.sourceforge.net/documentation/v630/ig.pdf
(e). Code here MAY be helful in thuis project for replacing the MAC OS X GUI (uses another GUI toolkit [wxWidgets]): http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/ai-repository/ai/areas/expert/systems/clips/fzclips/wxfuzzy/
(f). Curl can be obtained from here: http://curl.haxx.se/download.html


NOTE: READ MESSAGE BELOW

All though the CLIPS code provided in the link above has Mac_OS_X in the link title, the code is not MAC specific (I will be running on a PC in any case NOT a MAC).

I had a look at the code and the source code is self is platform specific (though it can be tailored by modifying setup.h). The interface stuff (seperate) seems geared to the MacOS, but the wxCLIPS link I provided above shows how another toolkit (wxWidget) can be used as the uinterface, and may thus prove useful in this project which provides a QT interface to CLIPS.