he same time can share a single copy of the library in memory.</p>

<p>The main drawback of shared libraries is that they can get separated from the program that needs them; e.g., if you copy the compiled program to another machine, you will also need to copy the library (unless it is already installed). On some systems, special care is required to ensure that the run-time system can find the library when it needs it.</p>

<p>On <b>UNIX</b> systems, the shared library (named <code>libpgplot.so</code> on mos