<html lang="en"> <head> <title>Available Symbols - GCL SI Manual</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html"> <meta name="description" content="GCL SI Manual"> <meta name="generator" content="makeinfo 4.13"> <link title="Top" rel="start" href="index.html#Top"> <link rel="up" href="C-Interface.html#C-Interface" title="C Interface"> <link rel="prev" href="C-Interface.html#C-Interface" title="C Interface"> <link href="http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/" rel="generator-home" title="Texinfo Homepage"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css"> <style type="text/css"><!-- pre.display { font-family:inherit } pre.format { font-family:inherit } pre.smalldisplay { font-family:inherit; font-size:smaller } pre.smallformat { font-family:inherit; font-size:smaller } pre.smallexample { font-size:smaller } pre.smalllisp { font-size:smaller } span.sc { font-variant:small-caps } span.roman { font-family:serif; font-weight:normal; } span.sansserif { font-family:sans-serif; font-weight:normal; } --></style> </head> <body> <div class="node"> <a name="Available-Symbols"></a> <p> Previous: <a rel="previous" accesskey="p" href="C-Interface.html#C-Interface">C Interface</a>, Up: <a rel="up" accesskey="u" href="C-Interface.html#C-Interface">C Interface</a> <hr> </div> <h3 class="section">16.1 Available Symbols</h3> <p>When GCL is built, those symbols in the system libraries which are referenced by functions linked in in the list of objects given in <samp><span class="file">unixport/makefile</span></samp>, become available for reference by GCL code. <p>On some systems it is possible with <code>faslink</code> to load <samp><span class="file">.o</span></samp> files which reference other libraries, but in general this practice is not portable. </body></html>