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+/* guile-ltdl.h -- dlopen function actually used by guile
+   Copyright (C) 1998-2000, 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+
+This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
+License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
+version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+
+As a special exception to the GNU Lesser General Public License,
+if you distribute this file as part of a program or library that
+is built using GNU libtool, you may include it under the same
+distribution terms that you use for the rest of that program.
+
+This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
+Lesser General Public License for more details.
+
+You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
+License along with this library; if not, write to the Free
+Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA
+02111-1307  USA
+*/
+
+/* Only include this header file once. */
+#ifndef SCM_LTDL_H
+#define SCM_LTDL_H 1
+
+typedef struct scm_i_lt_dlhandle_struct *scm_lt_dlhandle;
+typedef void * scm_lt_ptr;
+
+void            scm_lt_dlset_preloaded_symbols (void);
+int             scm_lt_dlinit (void);
+scm_lt_dlhandle scm_lt_dlopenext (const char *filename);
+scm_lt_ptr      scm_lt_dlsym (scm_lt_dlhandle handle, const char *name);
+const char     *scm_lt_dlerror (void);
+int             scm_lt_dlclose (scm_lt_dlhandle handle);
+
+#endif /* !SCM_LTDL_H */