--- a/src/cli-crypt.h
+++ b/src/cli-crypt.h
@@ -27,16 +27,16 @@
 #define LSIZE	1024	/* our standard buffer size for static memory */
 
 /* our global variables */
-char cleartext_pass[LSIZE];	/* where do we store the initial cleartext of the password */
-char encrypted_pass[LSIZE];	/* where we stuff our password once it's encrypted */
-char salt_src[LSIZE];		/* a place we can store text to scramble to get our salt */
-char salt[LSIZE];		/* the actual salt we end up with using in our call to crypt(); */
+extern char cleartext_pass[LSIZE];	/* where do we store the initial cleartext of the password */
+extern char encrypted_pass[LSIZE];	/* where we stuff our password once it's encrypted */
+extern char salt_src[LSIZE];		/* a place we can store text to scramble to get our salt */
+extern char salt[LSIZE];		/* the actual salt we end up with using in our call to crypt(); */
 
 /* flags we use to determine how we're doing things */
-short int md5;		/* we doing md5 passwords */
-short int quiet;	/* are we to be quiet */
-short int debug;	/* do we print debug info? */
-short int do_salt;	/* do we need to provide a salt? */
+extern short int md5;		/* we doing md5 passwords */
+extern short int quiet;	/* are we to be quiet */
+extern short int debug;	/* do we print debug info? */
+extern short int do_salt;	/* do we need to provide a salt? */
 
 
 /* from main.c */
--- a/src/crypt.c
+++ b/src/crypt.c
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
 
 #include "include.h"
 
-
+char encrypted_pass[LSIZE];
 
 short int cr_crypt() {
        	char *cp;
--- a/src/getopt.c
+++ b/src/getopt.c
@@ -25,6 +25,13 @@
 
 #include "include.h"
 
+char cleartext_pass[LSIZE];
+
+short int md5;
+short int quiet;
+short int debug;
+short int do_salt;
+
 void cr_version(char *me) {
 	/* some quick mutzing around to get the == of `basename $0` */
 	char lme[LSIZE];
--- a/src/random.c
+++ b/src/random.c
@@ -27,6 +27,9 @@
 
 #include "include.h"
 
+char salt_src[LSIZE];
+char salt[LSIZE];
+
 /* shared amongst the functions in this file */
 long int rand_file;