Libraries are collections of functions which can be either
automatically loaded into the Scilab environment when
Scilab is called, or loaded when desired by the user.
Libraries are created by the lib command. Examples of librairies
are given in the SCIDIR/macros directory. Note that in these
directory there is an ASCII file ``names'' which contains the names
of each function of the library, a set of .sci files which
contains the source code of the functions and a set of .bin files
which contains the compiled code of the functions. The Makefile invokes
scilab for compiling the functions and generating the .bin
files. The compiled functions of a library are automatically loaded
into Scilab at their first call. To build a library the command genlib can be used (help genlib
).