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  65. <h4 class="subsection">23.3.1 Guile Introduction</h4>
  66. <p>Guile is an implementation of the Scheme programming language
  67. and is the GNU project&rsquo;s official extension language.
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  69. <p>Guile support in <small>GDB</small> follows the Python support in <small>GDB</small>
  70. reasonably closely, so concepts there should carry over.
  71. However, some things are done differently where it makes sense.
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  73. <p><small>GDB</small> requires Guile version 3.0, 2.2, or 2.0.
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  76. <p>Guile scripts used by <small>GDB</small> should be installed in
  77. <samp><var>data-directory</var>/guile</samp>, where <var>data-directory</var> is
  78. the data directory as determined at <small>GDB</small> startup (see <a href="Data-Files.html#Data-Files">Data Files</a>).
  79. This directory, known as the <em>guile directory</em>,
  80. is automatically added to the Guile Search Path in order to allow
  81. the Guile interpreter to locate all scripts installed at this location.
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