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<h4 class="subsection" id="Guile-Initialization-Functions-1"><span>5.2.1 Guile Initialization Functions<a class="copiable-link" href="#Guile-Initialization-Functions-1"> &para;</a></span></h4>
<p>To initialize Guile, you can use one of several functions. The first,
<code class="code">scm_with_guile</code>, is the most portable way to initialize Guile. It
will initialize Guile when necessary and then call a function that you
can specify. Multiple threads can call <code class="code">scm_with_guile</code>
concurrently and it can also be called more than once in a given thread.
The global state of Guile will survive from one call of
<code class="code">scm_with_guile</code> to the next. Your function is called from within
<code class="code">scm_with_guile</code> since the garbage collector of Guile needs to know
where the stack of each thread is.
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<p>A second function, <code class="code">scm_init_guile</code>, initializes Guile for the
current thread. When it returns, you can use the Guile API in the
current thread. This function employs some non-portable magic to learn
about stack bounds and might thus not be available on all platforms.
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<p>One common way to use Guile is to write a set of C functions which
perform some useful task, make them callable from Scheme, and then link
the program with Guile. This yields a Scheme interpreter just like
<code class="code">guile</code>, but augmented with extra functions for some specific
application &mdash; a special-purpose scripting language.
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<p>In this situation, the application should probably process its
command-line arguments in the same manner as the stock Guile
interpreter. To make that straightforward, Guile provides the
<code class="code">scm_boot_guile</code> and <code class="code">scm_shell</code> function.
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<p>For more about these functions, see <a class="ref" href="Initialization.html">Initializing Guile</a>.
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