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<p>Your library must be initialized before it can be used, to register the
    new types that it makes available. Also, the C library that you are wrapping
    might have its own initialization function that you should call. You can do
    this in an <code class="function">init()</code> function that you can place in
    hand-coded <code class="filename">init.h</code> and <code class="filename">init.cc</code>
    files. This function should initialize your dependencies (such as the C
    function, and <span class="application">gtkmm</span>) and call your generated
    <code class="function">wrap_init()</code> function. For instance:</p>
<pre class="programlisting"><code class="code">void init()
{
  Gtk::init_gtkmm_internals(); //Sets up the g type system and the Glib::wrap() table.
  wrap_init(); //Tells the Glib::wrap() table about the libsomethingmm classes.
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