With the introduction of PrologScript (see section 2.11.2.1), using shell scripts as explained in this section has become redundant for most applications.
Especially on Unix systems and not-too-large applications, writing a shell script that simply loads your application and calls the entry point is often a good choice. A skeleton for the script is given below, followed by the Prolog code to obtain the program arguments.
#!/bin/sh base=<absolute-path-to-source> PL=swipl exec $PL -q -f "$base/load" --
:- initialization go.
go :-
current_prolog_flag(argv, Arguments),
go(Arguments).
go(Args) :-
...
On Windows systems, similar behaviour can be achieved by creating a
shortcut to Prolog, passing the proper options or writing a .bat
file.