---
name: "slib"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "slib"
version: "3c1-2"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/slib"
---

# slib(1)

Scheme Library

## NAME

SLIB - Scheme Library

## SYNOPSIS

**slib** \[ scheme \| scm \| gsi \| gosh \| guile \| scheme48 \| larceny \| scmlit \| elk \| sisc \| kawa \| mzscheme \]\

## DESCRIPTION

"SLIB" is a portable library for the programming language "Scheme". It provides a platform independent framework for using "packages" of Scheme procedures and syntax.  As distributed, SLIB contains many useful packages.  Its catalog can be transparently extended to accomodate packages specific to a site, implementation, user, or directory.

## OPTIONS

The optional argument to the *slib* script is the Scheme implementation to run.  Absent the argument, it searches for implementations in the above order.

## ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

- **SCHEME\_LIBRARY\_PATH**

  is the SLIB Scheme library directory (with a trailing "/").

## FILES

- slib.info

  Texinfo documentation of *slib.*

## AUTHORS

Aubrey Jaffer (agj @ alum.mit.edu) and scores of others.

## SEE ALSO

The SLIB home-page:\
 http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/~jaffer/SLIB.html

- The full documentation for slib is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and slib programs are properly installed at your site, the command

  info slib

- should give you access to the complete manual.